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LAST Tuesday Professor Child gave his first reading in Shakspere. It was very largely attended, at least one hundred and ten students being present. The lesson was the first part of Macbeth. The notes and comments were interesting, and well repaid the extra hour taken from our recess...
...regards the student himself and the opportunities of employment opened to him. Age is to be taken into the account. If one graduates at twenty-four or later, and is free from debt, it is better for him to enter at once on his professional studies, especially at the present time, when the freshness and vigor of youth are at a premium in some of the professions, and at a discount in none. But if one is in debt, he should keep school, or engage in some remunerative employment long enough to free himself of pecuniary encumbrance, which is always...
...graduates at the present average age, a year or two spent as a classical teacher can hardly fail to be very serviceable. It is of special use as a means of reviewing and fixing firmly the rudiments of a liberal education. It is as to these that a good scholar on leaving college is most deficient, often not prepared for the admission examination. He can read Latin well, Greek passably; but there is a good deal of the minuter details of Latin and Greek grammar that he has not retained, while he has probably lost all of his Freshmen mathematics...
...design of the school is to afford such training in the fundamental principles of English and American law as will constitute the best preparation for the practice of the profession in any place where that system of laws prevails." It is unfair to judge of this system, in its present incomplete form and application to the school, as if it had been tested by time and experience. It will not be denied that the school is at present in a transition period; as such, it deserves every allowance. It would be difficult to state to what extent or in what...
...take issues with the new theory of instruction by cases. But lack of time and experience to test and impart it in such a masterly form, method, and application as we may hope to see the future produce, we believe should prevent its extensive or very general introduction at present...