Word: rhetoricize
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The writer heads the present article with these words, taken from an able article in the Advocate of May 27, because they admirably suggest certain thoughts of his own, and certain comparisons not at all to the advantage of the English Department of Harvard College. He may be pardoned for...
These words are as true now as they were a year since. No change for the better has been made. We still have less English than either Greek or Latin or German. And the Sophomore required work is hardly a compensation for the mathematical and classical Freshman work. But not...
THE necessity of a change in the English system of Harvard, so far as it pertains to instruction in Rhetoric and the correct use of our own language, cannot be too strongly emphasized.
In the Freshman year we devote our time to the study of Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, while Rhetoric is entirely neglected; but if that were made a prescribed study of the Freshman year, we could then enter upon our Sophomore year thoroughly prepared to write our themes with a greater...
WE hear that with the advice and encouragement of two prominent members of the Faculty, a paper is being signed by the Juniors, petitioning the Faculty for a reduction in the amount of work required of the Junior class. It is proposed to cut down the work by requiring only...