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...catalogue of this famous school is particularly interesting this year, owing to the great change that has lately been made in the course of studies. The object of this change is to meet the new requirements at Harvard; and as it was found to be impossible to perform the additional work in the already crowded three-year course, another year, called the "Preparatory," has been added...
...drink bitter beer and the choking hot brandy-and-water, was it not as good for him as a temperance lecture to be doused in cold water and left to dry? Did not, in short, the Sophomore take the place of a mother to him and frequently perform the functions of the previous maternal supervision? But, it may be said, however this was, the Sophomores were certainly not the men to exercise this restraint. The belief in the conceit of Sophomores is a pretty general one, and may be correct. Nevertheless, it does not seem to me that this quality...
...government of men had been with that power, it was so still, and it would, he doubted not, long continue so; and if the cultivation of that power were neglected in the principal places of education, they would be neglecting one of the chief instruments by which to perform the duties of their future lives...
...sufficient that the offending one reforms, he must even reach a standard of excellence, higher than that which is required of his associates, and this is hardly probable. We do not believe that the greater one's task is the less time it will take to perform it, or in giving to an overworked man more work in order to rest...
...parietal committee to adopt, no better results could reasonably be expected. The fault lies elsewhere; it is in the fact that few who come here have received the slightest preparation for the life before them. It would be thought unfair to blindfold a child and expect him to perform creditably upon the tight-rope. But the parent and teacher do the same thing all the time, and are greatly chagrined at the result. You wish to give the charge intrusted you a Christian character? By all means; there is abundant room for such. But do not persuade yourselves that...