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...Everything here is always the same, - the same invariable round of bells and recitations, of diggings and of deads! Mathematics piled on mathematics! Metaphysics murdered and mangled! Prayer bells after prayer bells; but, worse than all, commons upon commons! Clean, handsome plates and poor food...
...camp prayer-meeting" has been held on the campus. President McCosh was present...
...exercises began with a waltz played by a band of stringed instruments, prayer by the class-chaplain followed, and then the orator was introduced. His theme was the connection between education and agriculture, and he proved conclusively, to himself at least, that the prosperity of a country depends upon the farmers, and that the cultivation of the soil ought to go hand in hand with the cultivation of the mind. He did not close without censuring the corruption of the times. The children of the so-called old families, he said, inherit more vices than virtues, and he wished...
Then the song of a prayer to heaven, with a fervor that angels feel...
...amount of work that is performed by those who teach us. It can be shown, we think, that in proportion to their whole number, more instructors than students have broken down from overwork. For the sake of us both, then, gentlemen of the Corporation, attend to this prayer...