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...from our purpose to deprecate the careful examination of such details of a language, or of its peculiar genius, but it does not seem that such study is necessary for a beginner in order to give him such working power with the language as to enable him to employ his acquirement outside of the recitation room. As to pronunciation, the less said the better; it is after all perhaps merely a matter of taste. But it certainly seems only fair to say that the methods employed in some of the German electives are far from accordance with the generally recognized...
...doubt whatever that we are a set of stubborn scoffers at the faith from a faculty of confirmed infidels to a freshman class of jeering sceptics." It is not many years ago that Harvard could have extended the hand of sympathy to Cornell. Fortunately, however, our "over-zealous brethren" seem to be growing sensible with the more liberal views...
...still, notwithstanding the substantial accord of spirit towards which all are tending, we cannot admit, as some of our Western friends would seem to wish to have us do, that the difference in degree in the comparative amount of instruction in the regular course of the larger universities, as Yale, the University of Michigan and Harvard, and in the smaller colleges of the West, is really inconsiderable. Each class works its own work, but it is mere pretence to claim that the work of both is equal. The mere statement of courses catalogued, of authors read and of subjects treated...
...doubt in the minds of some whether or not it is best to go to so much expense for an object which is likely to yield us but small returns. With no water but a crooked canal, half a mile from the college grounds, it does at first sight seem foolish, and yet those who profess to know, declare that even these are by no means insuperable difficulties, and have assured us that each successive crew was better than that of the preceding year. As yet we have accomplished little. To be sure, we have the Childs...
...would be glad to join the society if they knew something more certain about it, but while they feel that no redistribution of courts is probable this season, although the association is said to have received full control of the grounds on Jarvis and Holmes, the investment does not seem a profitable one. Would it not be wise for some one of authority to let us know what the committee on the constitution has brought forth after months of labor? If the whole matter is understood by those interested, next fall we shall experience no such indiscriminate scrambling for courts...