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The exclusive study for a profession, with the majority of students, begins immediately on the end of the academic course. Time necessary for acquiring much general information being thus limited, it is desirable to find the means of obtaining clear yet condensed views and recent opinions on such subjects as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVENING LECTURES. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

It is far from being an easy task to bring all the subjects one would be informed about within the number of electives. The primers of science which pretend to impart general information on their respective subjects are seldom reliable, and usually written for youthful minds. Since able instructors in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVENING LECTURES. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

The success of a series of short lecture-courses on anatomy, physiology, geology, astronomy, etc. by our own professors would not be at all doubtful. This plan of instruction would supply a real want. All that is necessary for its introduction is the expression of the desire for such instruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVENING LECTURES. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

"Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Will the whole Finance-Ministers and Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint-stock company, to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAILURE. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

Now, how far will the happiness described in this article go towards making a man, in any sense, happy? Suppose a man to succeed in limiting his desires to but one thing, - wealth, let us say, or knowledge; have we not enough examples to teach us that this one thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAILURE. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »