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...inaccessible to most is necessarily bad. A striking characteristic of the literature of our age is its sympathy with the Greek in thought and in feeling. There never was a time before when writers of English in almost all departments but the religious drew their inspiration so often and so directly from Greek authors. Proofs of this are found where, if this statement is correct, they should most frequently be found, - on the pages of those poets who distinctly embody the intellectual peculiarities of their time. One, among many illustrations of this truth, is that translations of Greek tragedies...
...assertion, but they know its truth who have observed the woful ignorance which prevails in a Greek class as to the connection of any particular passage with what has gone before, and as to the action, purposes, and peculiarities of the whole work it is reading; and this, too, often among those who are diligent scholars...
...year or two spent as a classical teacher can hardly fail to be very serviceable. It is of special use as a means of reviewing and fixing firmly the rudiments of a liberal education. It is as to these that a good scholar on leaving college is most deficient, often not prepared for the admission examination. He can read Latin well, Greek passably; but there is a good deal of the minuter details of Latin and Greek grammar that he has not retained, while he has probably lost all of his Freshmen mathematics, except a few leading definitions...
...fill all the places opened from year to year, it would be an imposition upon the public for any others to offer their temporary services. But these born teachers are comparatively few; next to them, in merit and serviceableness, come young men fresh from college. Their first year is often their best. They have to study a great deal through that year, and teach only what they have just been carefully reviewing. They are manly enough to command respect, and yet retain sympathy enough with boyhood to win the attachment of their pupils. They have not encountered the discouraging experiences...
...this bond did exist once, was even very powerful; of that there is no doubt. Does it exist now? Seniors are certainly sorry to leave the friends they have known for four years, but is it because their friends are members of the same class? Have they not often even stronger friendships with men of other classes? Does a Senior have a common feeling of attachment for any one of two hundred men because he writes the date of the same year after his name as his classmate does? It must be seen that the question of class feeling depends...