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...little spot of ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts, utterly ignores the fact that such a person as Washington ever existed or had a birthday, and calmly goes on in its daily routine. We are forced to the conclusion that colleges have no souls, and are mere grist-mills, which receive school-boys into their hoppers, and turn out "liberally educated men." We care nothing for the holiday in itself, but it seems to us that the Faculty has no moral right to disregard days which the whole nation celebrates. Such a policy is not calculated to create or promote that interest...
...uninitiated may imagine, an irreparable injury to the College or undergraduates to ??? a few hours of recitations. This is not a primary school, where the master must stand over his pupils to see that they employ every moment of their time...
...ground for suspecting a leaven of prejudice or self-interest in their advocacy. For this reason it is to be noticed that the two colleges - Princeton and Williams - which lead off the attempt to establish the Intercollegiate literary contests, have not been among the foremost to transform school-boys into students. The President of one of them, who is understood to be strongly in favor of the proposed plan, has already made widely known his views upon College discipline, and it is not unnatural that he should now wish to lead into the arena his well-tamed pupil, moulded...
...These lines are expurgated in the school editions...
...purpose of preparing these teachers, there exist in France the so-called Normal Schools, of which I wish to say a word, as they are intimately connected with the Primary Schools. The pupils enter them at the age of sixteen or eighteen years, just the period at which the heart and mind of the young are most susceptible of development. It is then, in the spring of life, that the mind opens and expands like a flower under the rays of the morning sun. Well, I regret to say it, in these normal schools there are no ideas communicated; instead...