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...Fawcett) is uncertain; but a judicious use of the privilege will doubtless make the students' labor easier; a man may get through many subjects, with a recitation now and then, and perhaps get as high a per cent as now, by making use of some elaborate notes and one of Harpers' maturer Youth's Companions...
...three finally elected were, Mr. Grinnel Willis of Harvard, Mr. C. H. Ferry of Yale, and Mr. J. B. Thomas of Wesleyan. If there is any unwillingness on the part of the above gentlemen to serve, others will be appointed in their stead. The position is a very important one; the entire management of the regatta will devolve upon them, and for anything and everything which goes wrong they alone will be responsible...
...mile, and, at the finish, of thirteen hundred feet; thus, at no part, could even the wildest steering possibly cause a foul. The water is reported to be clear of all weeds and grasses, and also very deep, even close to the shore. A road follows the lake on one side, near the bank, and on the other the ground is so high that a view of the course can be had from almost any position. At the finish the banks form an amphitheatre, from which the start can easily be seen with the naked...
Full many a one; but within my tier...
...then, in the spring of life, that the mind opens and expands like a flower under the rays of the morning sun. Well, I regret to say it, in these normal schools there are no ideas communicated; instead of broadening, they have the contrary effect of narrowing one's views. The pupils are taught to read, write, and calculate arithmetical problems; they are instructed in religion, and, in fine, they are educated, or rather (for the word is not apt) are fashioned, like machines. During the three years that they pass here they turn upon their own footsteps without making...