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...action and exerts a more powerful influence than mere pleasure or pain; and to account for these as Mr. Bain does is to annihilate all sense of obligation, and to appeal to the sensualistic feelings which we have in common with the brute. All the world unite in praising one who sacrifices his self-interest in support of what he believes to be the truth; but our author charges him with acting to gain pleasure simply, either for himself or others...
...than he feels able to get at the specified time. The belief that this rule will rarely ever do an injustice, by affecting such as are absolutely incapacitated from attendance on examination on account of severe sickness, is based on the experience of the last five years, that but one Senior has, during that time, been absent from his annuals. It is inferred that valid reasons for absence cannot be more numerous in the lower classes...
This is the reasoning on which the regulation is based. The result of such a rule in the vast majority of cases will undoubtedly be a good one, by preventing that continual postponement of examinations which is alike injurious to the student and troublesome to the instructor, but that injustice to a good scholar might sometimes follow from its rigorous enforcement is certainly possible. It is to be remarked, however, that it is possible for an absentee to attain the maximum mark by allowing the subject of the examination to stand against him as a condition, "to be removed...
...Drew graduated at Harvard in 1863, and was nominated by this University for the Chinese service in 1865. Two other Americans joined the service at the same time, - one a nominee of Union, and the other of Yale. More of our countrymen are now wanted; and if those selected prove intelligent and industrious, it may fairly be expected that in a few years they will hold excellent positions in China...
...There is one horrid word in their mouths, namely, "annual...