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...obliged to peruse his "unabridged" on the slightest occasion, and who cannot write half a page without looking up a dozen words, may read the following with every feeling of satisfaction and pleasure. A recent essay on the subject of spelling and reading English gives voice to some rather remarkable opinions, a consideration of which it was thought would be interesting, especially to the class of men spoken of above...
...recent correspondent to the Evening Post discusses the "Students House of Commons" at Johns Hopkins, and asks if it would not have been better if the students had established a "House of Representatives" instead of a "House of Commons." This question is certainly very properly asked. For why should students in an American university copy after an English institution? And why should they not copy after an American institution? Our lower house is, the Post's correspondent says, "in no wise inferior to the British House of Commons, in dignity, ability, or influence," and to copy after it, besides fostering...
...recent resignation of President Porter has been the chief topic of conversation among undergraduates and graduates of Yale in this city. No event, it may be said, that has occurred at Yale within the last decade has occasioned such a stir in the college or has called forth so much general discussion from all classes alike...
...matters of college government and undergraduate conduct, sarcasm, good and bad taste, mighty phillipics, extravagant "swipes," are as prevalent there as here. There seems to be, however, a tendency towards meddling with politics, national or local. The little journal swells out enormously, and disagrees most decidedly with a recent appointment at Washington, or thinks that the city had better "begin work on the grading" of such and such a street as soon as possible. The current number contains its Thanksgiving editorial, and the reader almost sees the enthusiastic editor devouring the famous morsels of turkey, with eyes dilated, face jovial...
...Hale in a recent discussion of the public school system, advanced a theory of education which would involve as its purpose continued self-education after the years of schooling. It is true that this theory ought fundamentally to occupy the minds of our educators, but where such a theory, if rigidly carried into practice in the common school system might from circumstances prove inefficient, it assumes an enlarged significance when applied to a collegiate education. Many college courses have no end in view beyond charging the mind of the student with a mass of facts more or less interesting...