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...instructor are expended in estimating the work rather than in criticising it, and in which the practical result and outcome of the student is a mark and not the means by which to do better,-that any such course of study is a failure, a waste of precious time, and must be either improved or given up. Now we assert that what has been said is exactly the state of the present instruction in forensics; and whatever the faculty may think on the subject, we are confident that all thinking men in the senior class-who have had a year...
...many a manly mind while a great university, neglecting in large neasure the literature and the philosophy of two leading nations, contents itself with being, in the words of one of its greatest sons, 'a bestower of rewards for schoolboy merit'-while thousands of despairing boys thus waste their precious hours in 'contracting their own views and deadening their own sensibilities' by a failure in the acquisition of the useless-while we apply this inconceivably irrational process to Greek and Latin, and to no other language ever taught under the sun-while we thus accumulate instruction without education, and feel...
Under these circumstances it is our duty to get a clear understanding of the reason for the previous prosperity of our universities; we must try to find what is the feature in their arrangements which we must seek to retain as a precious jewel, and where on the contrary, we may give way when changes are required. I consider myself by no means entitled to give a final opinion on this matter. The point of view of any single individual is restricted; representatives of other sciences will be able to contribute something. But I think that a final result...
...intellectual growth is liberty. Give the student, first of all, opportunity; tempt him with the best of teachers; lead him to the fountains of intellectual life. His use of these fountains must depend on himself. If, beside opportunity, the college can furnish also the inspiration which shall make opportunity precious and fruitful, its work is accomplished. The college that fulfils these two conditions - opportunity and inspiration - will be a success, will draw to itself the frequency of youth, the patronage of wealth, the consensus of all the good. Nothing is so fatal to inspiration as excessive legislation. It creates...
...faculty in changing the hour of religious service will force a large body of men to migrate to other churches. We believe that many men are waiting for the evening chapel to begin and that they imagine, in the meanwhile, that they are not drawing on their precious store of "cuts." Whether the change was due to a vacancy in the college chaplainship or to some more occult cause, we are unable to state, but that it has succeeded in inconveniencing a large number of students is very evident by the occasional murmurs of disapproval which reach our ears...