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But other schools have not the desire nor ability to present such finished candidates. Many country towns - we say it with no disparagement - have to devote themselves to common-school education, and neglect, to a great extent, the preparation of students, if they have any, for college. It is a...
And this is the fault. Boys are taught that fine and showy recitations are the great criterion of their learning. They are marked, perhaps, a failure for omission of one preposition in a list of thirty exceptions; get into their heads, that there is only one translation of every passage...
WE are glad to assert, and that on very good authority, that the Catalogue is to be out by the end of this month, - perhaps sooner.
The College authorities are powerless to do more than keep such an evil in check, as in past years, by the painful method of dismissing detected students, - usually not the most culpable, - thus perhaps blighting their prospects for life. The responsibility or the credit for breaking up such a custom...
Perhaps the greatest inconvenience to the visitor was the trouble of conveyance to and from the lake; but even this was not serious after the first day, when teams of all descriptions, from the stately landau to the sluggish lumber-cart, were impressed into the service, drawn by the report...