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...FRESHMAN had occasion to visit the cellar in the south entry of Weld a week or two ago. On attempting to return he met with an unexpected obstacle. He pushed against the door at the head of the stairs, and found that it refused to open. He felt for the knob, and attempted to turn it, but it merely slipped around without catching the latch. The horrible thought flashed upon him that the latch had broken and that he was locked up for the night. It was past eight o' clock on Saturday evening, and the passers-by were...
...Open thine eyes with a dreamy look...
...escape being floored, we must expect the instructor to make use of Napoleonic tactics, and concentrate his forces on a single point, - this being, doubtless, the best method of attack, - and we should mass our strength on the point we expect to be attacked, thus leaving our whole domain open to the incursions of random, guerilla-like questions. But if the movement of the enemy is merely a feint, we are liable to be utterly conquered by his victorious march through a country only defended by its ordinary militia. It is this danger which makes most students averse...
...practical advantage of the most radical reform exists only in theory. Of course, any system allowing greater freedom is sure to find sturdy partisans; but the desirability of voluntary recitations has not yet been proved. What the effect of throwing open these Elysian fields may have on the "margin of cultivation" (to quote our amiable friend, Mrs. 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...
...given. Without any circumlocution, without any false pride, I have shown you the defects of our system. Does this mean that I regard the French people as inferior to the other peoples of the earth? Not at all. I believe that our intelligence is as great, our mind as open, as that of any other nation in the world. Simply, we have never been able, or known how, to take advantage of our resources. We are a people of routine, bound down by the deadly fetters of a bigoted clergy, which abhors everything modern, whose ideal is in the past...