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...offers us this feature, and is therefore of no little importance in the history of speech. Its study is, so to speak, the A B C of the philologist. It offers a criterion, a test, for other and more difficult studies, and is a living type on which we may build our theories. Its application is practical enough. The habit of comparison and inquiry which it forms finds daily exercise, and cannot be too highly cultivated; and in our age, when a man of culture cannot exist without the knowledge of at least two languages besides his own, the theory...
...order,E. W. CATE,F. C. FAULKNER,A. L. GOODRICH,Class Committee.WHY may Henry V. be likened to a fish? Because he was caught by a diet of worms. (Only the student in German history can appreciate the above...
...descend from class to class, there is one of a certain student who, when asked, in a recitation, what a legal holiday was, replied that he did not know, for he never had anything to do with one. This story, though told as a joke, has a significance which may well cause us to blush for the narrow spirit which prevails in the government of our College...
...uninitiated may imagine, an irreparable injury to the College or undergraduates to ??? a few hours of recitations. This is not a primary school, where the master must stand over his pupils to see that they employ every moment of their time...
...departments of History and Political Science the committee consider as well taught. Modern languages are not treated of as fully as could be desired. The committee, however, have recognized what may well be considered the great bane of this department, namely, the number of students who elect them for a "soft thing." This evil in the French studies has in a great measure been done away with by the acuteness and good sense of the Professor, but we fear that, especially in the Sophomore electives, these studies are pursued with little effort, and the benefit derived by the student...