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WITHOUT intending to dispel any fair dream of present happiness that may dwell in the mind of any youthful student during the first few months of his college life, we may recall our experience and by comparison hope to arrive at some agreeable conclusions...
...interpretation proposed by a single writer. Keeping fully in mind that the embryo professor must imitate before he can originate, we feel that the question whether their instruction is profitable to those who are trying to prepare, in the short period of a college course, as thoroughly as may be for the duties of life, is worth a little consideration...
...professors not only give us the conclusions from a life study of their special subjects, but also show us how simple and natural the methods of experiment, how numerous the sources from which we may obtain materials, and that the process of thought on subjects most remote from the mind in its early years is in no way different from that we have employed many times on familiar subjects. Their greatest desire and most beneficial service is to infuse every mind coming within their reach with as great an interest as possible in the subject to be studied, leaving...
...actual and faithful investigation. From the contrast between the two kinds of instruction we have received, the belief must come that the Freshman year is only a period of initiation, during which you receive the contempt of all, from the highest official to the goody, in order that you may afterward enjoy their greater favor...
...opening of a new restaurant and a good one is a matter of congratulation. Without any unnecessary display of frescoing and tapestry, Messrs. Smith and Chamberlain have fitted up a neat and comfortable room, where the very best may be obtained at moderate prices. The seductive billiard-table is present in large numbers in the hall attached to the premises...