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Upon inquiry the rumored Law School crew turns out to be a "beautiful myth...
...sell to you dirt cheap at $5 per hundred - if such creatures call upon you, stop neither to parley with them or buy their wares, but turn them out of the premises at once. The men are impostors and their wares fraudulent. A visit was paid to the Law School a day or two ago by the fellows, but they were remembered from last year and men were on their guard. On being told to "clear out" they pretended not to understand, but when by a happy thought some one cried out "sortez done," followed by "sortez donkey" from another...
...wrong? Perhaps it is wrong, but it has gone on so for a long time. Well, why may not a preacher be formed on the same plan? John Wesley was not a greater man in preaching than Nelson in seamanship. Take, then, a youth of thirteen from the school. Apprentice him to the minister of the parish. Let him make at once preparations for clerical work. Let him store his memory with sermous, let him make abstracts of divinity systems, master the best exegetical commentators. Then, in a year or two, he would begin to catechise the young, to give...
Thus, I apprehend, the strictly professional uses of general knowledge fail to justify the grammar school and the art curriculum. Something, indeed, may still be said for the higher grades of professional excellence, and for introducing improved methods in the practice of the several crafts, for which wider outside studies lend their aid. This, however, is not enough; inventors are the exception. In fact, the ground must be widened, and include, secondly, the life beyond the profession. We are citizens of a self-governed country; members of various smaller societies; heads or members of families. We have, moreover, to carve...
Waldon, the captain of Yale's '81 nine, is in the Law School and will play his old position of second base in the spring...