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...would especially call the attention of our readers to an article printed elsewhere on school-teaching. The subject is one of interest to us all, whether we intend to follow it as a profession or not. The view here taken is of no small importance, as it is the opinion of an able man, and one well acquainted with the requirements as well as the difficulties and advantages of such a duty. His experience alone is sufficient guaranty for the soundness of his advice, and we would recommend all to read it carefully...
...advisable for a college graduate who does not mean to be a teacher permanently, to keep school for a year or more after leaving college...
...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 felt as a heavy burden in the entrance upon a professional career...
...ability or attainments; and it is by no means rare for a man to make a signal failure in one place, and to have an equally signal success in a second, in which he has profited by the experience of the first. A year or two in a school may save the teacher one remove, if not more, when he shall have become a doctor or a minister...
...department has there been a more radical reform than in the Law School. Instituted in 1817 with one instructor and three students, it finished its half-century with a full Faculty and one hundred and fifty students. A brief summary of half a century of earnest, able, and well-directed efforts to give as complete a course of instruction in the law as the times and facilities allowed, cannot but do injustice to the famous jurists and lecturers who have from the commencement filled the chairs of this school, - a list so extended and so celebrated that it would...