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...popular notion that the great majority of honor men and of "first scholars" seldom achieve in after-life a success at all proportionate to their academical standing. But of course this is strictly a popular notion, conceived in accordance with popular ideals. It can be answered that in such cases the scholar's ideal of success is often different from the popular ideal. Now that the ancient institution of wranglers is practically being abolished at Cambridge in England, considerable discussion is being called forth upon this question in the English press, and the recent publication of a complete list...
...taken by members of the faculty to explain and discuss with their classes, and especially with the freshman classes, the status and relations of the various courses and methods of work, a far more cordial and franker feeling would come to subsist between instructors and pupils, and a clearer notion of what is expected of them would remain with the latter. Prof. White's advice and ideas will certainly be carefully considered by his hearers. He began by intimating that the spirit of apathy and procrastination which the freedom of the lecture system allowed and unfortunately seemed to foster among...
Genevieve Ward says of his precious loveliness, now starring the country: "I've known him since he was a boy, and Oscar was very nice until he got this absurd aesthetic notion in his head. He began by wearing yellow cravats; sometimes he and Mrs. Langtry, who is really very beautiful, would come to see me play, and she generally carried a lily or two in her hand...
...What's the price? $2.00, you say. Notion store down our way sell 'em cheaper than that...
...Freshmen this "system" has had the most disastrous effects. In the other departments each new instructor finds the traditional system as a skeleton for which the flesh and blood is supplied from both his experience and the spirit of the times. So that however original an instructor's notion about the Classics, for instance, may be, he has at least a foundation to stand upon. Not so in German. Here every new instructor has, or thinks he has, for a year or more to undo the work of his predecessor; for another year to try his own experiments...