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...alternative, you must believe without any modification the theory or interpretation proposed by a single writer. Keeping fully in mind that the embryo professor must imitate before he can originate, we feel that the question whether their instruction is profitable to those who are trying to prepare, in the short period of a college course, as thoroughly as may be for the duties of life, is worth a little consideration...
...Monday following. If it is necessary that the recitations on Wednesday should be conducted as usual, and that those living at a distance should be prevented from spending the day with their families, is it necessary also to deprive them of the pleasure that would otherwise result from the short recess, by asking them to prepare for an examination immediately after their return...
...before, it was considered hardly right to make any one return for a recitation, though the preparation of this took up but a short time of the vacation, is it just, now, to impose upon us an examination in preparation for which, if we hope to pass at all fairly, we shall be obliged to spend nearly the whole of the two days allowed? For even if it is argued that we should be prepared at all times for examination, every one knows that not even the most persistent "dig" - and perhaps he least of all - would wish...
...here full short I stopped...
...seems to be a prevailing opinion among the express. men and teamsters of Cambridge, that the short-cuts through the Yard are thoroughfares of travel kept open for their especial convenience. This mistaken idea causes much annoyance, especially to classes reciting in University...