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...National Society of French Professors residing in Engiand. M. Waddington, the French Ambassador, presided. In his address, M. Waddington said that last year the society had met at Oxford by invitation of that university. He hoped the language which the society represented would soon be placed on a par with the classics. The modern school had not yet taken the position it deserved, and Moliere and Goethe should be studied by the side of Euripides and Sophocles...
...thinly settled and only par tidally developed...
...magazine completes its second year with to-day's number, one not much better or worse than the average - indeed the poetry is somewhat below par, though the prose is fully as good as usual...
...this was the unusual difficulty of the paper in German 5 yesterday in striking contrast to the extreme fairness of the papers in both English 6, Spanish 2, and Political Economy 4. To be sure, an instructor may, by marking easily on a hard paper, put himself on a par with an instructor who marks an easy paper hard; but the very difference between the papers makes it uncertain that he will do so. This is an old subject, but we cannot hope for fair marking till a more uniform standard is adapted...
...from a higher stand point, and perhaps an encouragement to that shirking and postponement of work which it cannot be our sober wish to see increase. Furthermore, it is a means by which one man is paid to do the work of another. This puts the custom on a par with that despicable custom of having servitors at English colleges. It is probable, however, that all arguments on this matter will be useless. Every man in college ought to refuse to uphold such a custom...