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However true this may be of the more advanced attainments in the art, the reasoning does not seem to hold with regard to the fundamental instruction like that now given to one class, and which might well be extended to the others, - instruction, we mean, in ordinary reading, in which we are notably slack, and instruction in the cultivation of the voice. It is in these that we need not only what we have, but more. We should have not only a course for the last class, but for all, - a course, or a series of courses, which shall...
...again very warm. Soon get tired of walking, and come back to the house. Everybody gone to bed. Suppose it must be one of the customs of the country to retire before the sun goes down. Sit up several hours studying my phrase-book. The sun in the mean time goes behind some mountains, but to my surprise, soon comes up again and seems to be getting higher. Time by my watch now one o'clock. Am determined not to go to bed before dark, so continue studying my phrase-book. Read also my Herbert Spencer, and several other entertaining...
...talking with the captain on the bridge several times) gets on board of her. Probably one of the Cunard Company who amuses himself by taking short trips on the different boats. I ask an elderly gentleman if this is so. He looks fixedly at me and replies, "Do you mean the pilot?" I do not understand what he is talking about, and walk away. He is probably very deaf and thought I said something else. The captain comes down from the bridge. Wishing to display my knowledge of English railroads, I ask him if we shall reach Liverpool in time...
...taught that fine and showy recitations are the great criterion of their learning. They are marked, perhaps, a failure for omission of one preposition in a list of thirty exceptions; get into their heads, that there is only one translation of every passage, - that arma in Arma virumque cano means arms, but never realize but that it must mean arms everywhere; finally, take down translations given by instructors in class as so many isolated facts, and, may we add, believe implicitly in Harkness's Grammar. They get a good fit, as it is commonly regarded; that is, they enter well...
...Charles Sumner and Andrew Johnson and-and Thoreau-and Margaret Fuller and Bayard Taylor and-and all our great statesmen who distinguished themselves by ordering executions-that is, by executing orders-with promptness and despatch. And our fair Boston maidens value a man for what he is worth, I mean not his income, but in-themes, and the calculus, and all that kind of thing,-not French polish,-in short, graduates should marry,-receive their marriage certificate and matriculation papers at the same time (I hope to get them next week, shall be admitted as a student in full standing...