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...intended to give a few informal talks or lectures on the importance of forming a taste for English reading, and the best method to be pursued in acquiring this taste, besides giving a sort of summary of the most prominent and most interesting English writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. As such a course would undoubtedly be both interesting and instructive, we hope the rest of the lectures will be given if possible. The time of the year is not as favorable for the success of a voluntary course of lectures as it would have been earlier...
...this latter part of the nineteenth century when a feeling of independence and equality, that one man is as good as another, is nowhere more clearly shown than in American college life, it is curious to notice in what a hotbed of aristocracy the early days of our colleges were spent...
...unfortunately, all are not born with equally strong and perfect bodies, and each must pursue a course that is in consonance with his physical and mental peculiarities." The Doctor says that it should be the duty of every teacher to know the condition of his pupils, and in this nineteenth century, with so many large cities and constantly increasing population, we need gymasia with men to manage them who thoroughly understand hygienic and physiological laws...
There is an article in the Nineteenth Century on "Recreation," by Sir James Paget, an eminent London physician...
...current number of the Advocate begins the nineteenth year of its existence...