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This, too, is the system that should be followed in teaching the classics. If the students in these days, as our author says they used to do, came to college, after four or five years of careful preparation, with a sufficient knowledge of the grammatical principles, the drill he objects...
We do not object to a man's making a spy-glass of his breast; but when the alternative is that it "undulate afloat on soundless depths," we beg leave to advise any man, in view of such a calamity, to spread his sails rather than fold them, especially if...
Not content with having dealt such a staggering blow at the above-mentioned professor, they print an article entitled "The Classics and Courtesy," in which another instructor has his character badly mangled. Some glimmering of its nature may be derived from the following sentence: "Perhaps there is something in the...
It has been told me that a classmate was exceedingly pleased with a story, which finally lost its point by the frequent repetitions he gave it. His friends wished to turn him from the error of his ways. Consequently, one day when at dinner and engaged in the recital of...
THE amicable relations which exist between the Advocate and the Magenta sorely annoy our belligerent friends at Yale. Besides the remorseful pangs which vice ever experiences in the presence of virtue, it must be extremely aggravating to find in all the exchanges, as they straggle in, after a notice of...