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...quantity and kind. When we breathe air which has once been breathed, we are taking into our lungs air from which the necessary oxygen has been withdrawn and the poisonous carbonic acid substituted. oxygen we can get best from out-door air and from that of the country rather than that of the city...
...This system provides for an introduction and the division of the essay proper under various legitimate, well ordered heads. The exposition should be as concise as possible and ought to exhibit independent thorough study. The speaker properly complained of a desire upon the part of many writers to assimilate rather than to invent and on the part of more, rather to arrange the work of others than to assimilate it. As the next forensic is to be of some length, all are advised to select a subject which will not "give out" before the forensic does. Especial care should...
...clever" man be a desirable product of college education or not, it must be admitted that he is a constantly increasing quantity in our midst. But, after all, if all possessors of a degree cannot be profound, it is much better that some of them should be only "clever," rather than that the ranks of our alumni should be represented only by the extremely talented or the hopelessly mediocre. While we feel that the clever men have, of late, been prone to claim rather more than their share of public attention, yet we are rather inclined to the belief that...
...glad to receive a correction of our editorial of a few days ago on the Yale faculty's treatment of Prof. Thompson. The report, on which we based our rather disparaging remarks, came from prominent Boston journals, and is only another evidence of the loose way in which daily journalism seems now to be conducted. We regret that we allowed ourselves to be so credulous, but nevertheless feel that we are not inexcusable...
...radical reform in the teaching given in our schools. There is much misapprehension relative to the average ages for entering a university in America and Germany. Many people seem to think that the average is much higher there than here, and that the matureness of the German students is rather attributable to that fact. But the truth of the matter is, that the mean age in Germany is hardly a year above that for entering such colleges as Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. It is in the schools, in the school training therefore, that the great difference lies. Our schools...