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PIOUS.SHE'S a dear little Sunday-school teacher...
...have been used has not, we are glad to see, been wholly abandoned. The Greek Department contemplate repeating the play next winter, and the money realized from its production will be set aside, the interest from it to be devoted to the founding and yearly maintenance of an Archaeological School at Athens. Other colleges, Yale, Columbia, and Cornell in particular, will be invited to subscribe to the fund, which will it is expected, reach twenty-five thousand dollars. The plan is then to secure a house in Athens, which shall be the head-quarters of American students...
...himself assiduously to the task of remedying his own deficiencies in this department, he is scarcely to be blamed. There are few Easterners whose culture is not rather handed down than acquired by labor, and it is more the home life and the society of the fellows than the school studies and the elective courses that give the stamp to a man. I have heard it said that Bostonians are not learned, they only have the faculty of assimilation, of selection and arrangement. If they acquire what little knowledge they have in this informal and easy manner, shall we blame...
...really a treat after wading through the Oberlin Review with its six-page criticisms on "Self-Culture," and its other discouraging articles. "Romance of the Rose,' though not a new idea, is very prettily written. "The Big Creamy Bowl" and "Grand Reception" smack a little of boarding school...
...independence, and partly from the slight restraint exercised over them by the Trustees, the Faculty of Exeter have become too arbitrary towards, and too exacting of, their pupils. There is not that close relation existing between instructor and pupil which we should like to see in a preparatory school. The instructors, while assuming the dignity of university professors, treat the scholars as boys. All are shaped for college with one machine, and the only oil used is the well-known "roughing." As long as the professors continue in this course, we cannot but predict these petty outbreaks which so injure...