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...follow as fast as my small legs...
...would seem that the facilities offered at the Bussey Institution for instruction in agriculture are not taken advantage of or appreciated. For we learn that "no small part of the time of the instructors has been spent in supervising the construction of buildings, aqueducts, reservoirs, and roadways; in fitting and furnishing greenhouses, laboratories, and lecture-rooms, and in laying out grounds." This institution recently received an endowment of $100,000. But notwithstanding the improvements made and being made, it has not succeeded in inducing a single student to offer himself for the three years' course in agriculture. This fact seems...
...enter college without any appreciation of study; but it is also true that great numbers leave college in the same condition. So, too, even now, cramming is very prevalent. Both these evils are unavoidable in a large college; nor do I see how they can be avoided in a small one. At any rate, the advantages of concentrating educational resources are so great, that it is reductio ad absurdum if the opponents of President Eliot are compelled to maintain that, on the whole, small colleges are better than large...
...some room connected with the main reading-room in which the smoker could indulge his propensities, - a room which no one need enter unless so disposed, and in which, therefore, no one could complain of the habits of others? For instance, would it be entirely impracticable to convert the small room on the southeast corner of Massachusetts into such a refuge...
...curriculum the [Law] School greatly needs a fourth professorship, to be devoted to Roman Law, Jurisprudence, and the History of Law; but this chair must be amply endowed, for the number of students in this country who know enough to desire thorough instruction in these subjects is small and likely to continue so for many years to come." The School itself cannot pay such a professor, as it barely meets its expenses now; so the deficiency must remain unsupplied...