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...much has been done, though more remains. The outcry against corruption has roused many citizens to a consciousness of their duties and to some spasmodic efforts to perform them, but in a few years they will turn over and take another nap until corruption has again reached its maximum. Something, therefore, must be done that will produce more lasting effects. It should be a part of every intelligent man's education to be taught to take an interest in politics, and it certainly should not be difficult to arouse such an interest among a large number of educated young...
...highly desirable that he should seek some faroff shore, "where censure-marks cease from troubling, and the lazy are at rest." Casting around for a place worthy to be graced by his unrivalled talent for a life of indolent luxury, he pitched upon Brazil as the country affording the maximum of physical enjoyment with the least mental strain; so, with no companion but a Portuguese conversation-book, he set out for the great city of South America, - Rio de Janeiro...
...assembled company at table. After careful deliberation, the students should be separated into classes, or divisions, according to their several characteristics. One body should be composed of those who ate with the most finished elegance. A second should consist of such as were able to consume a maximum of food in a minimum of time. The young gentlemen who habitually disregarded the ordinary distinction between knives and forks should form a third. And other divisions might be created at the discretion of the committee. Care should be taken to perfect every man in the peculiar branch of table manners...
...examination, the subject of that examination will stand against him as a condition, to be removed in the usual way by performing the corresponding work in some subsequent year. A student, however, whose absence from examination is excused, may, if he prefer, obtain a special examination; but the maximum mark at any such special examination will be only sixty per cent of the maximum mark of the examination for which it is substituted...
...continual postponement of examinations which is alike injurious to the student and troublesome to the instructor, but that injustice to a good scholar might sometimes follow from its rigorous enforcement is certainly possible. It is to be remarked, however, that it is possible for an absentee to attain the maximum mark by allowing the subject of the examination to stand against him as a condition, "to be removed in the usual way." It is, moreover, probable that a large proportion, if not a majority, of the cases of excused absentees will be unaffected by the sixty per cent maximum provision...