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...weeks a satisfactory method of taking down the most important points of any course, for example, in science or history. In most cases indeed no satisfactory method is arrived at even after four years of experiment. It seems somewhat strange, therefore, when we consider how much stress is laid nowadays upon the use of laborsaving devices in departments both of mental and of material labor, that so little attention on the whole is paid to this subject. It can justly be said indeed that many of our courses are but attempts to train the mind in methods of mental labor...
...There are those who maintain, respecting Princeton College, that, granting Dr. McCosh's eminent success in money-getting, the tone and manner of the students have not improved during his reign nor has the college advanced in literary culture. Such critics take exception to the perpetual stress laid on the getting of money, as though that were what the faculty chiefly looked for in the head of a college...
Then in answer to this question, first, all those views were excluded from consideration which lay stress on rewards and punishments as sanctions of the moral law. What is done for reward is, in so far, not a positively moral act. The real world offers support to true morality only in so far as it can show us that we are not alone when we try to act morally. If something in nature tends to realize genuine morality, then this something may show us a religious aspect of nature. For religion seeks in nature for something that gives support...
...devoted to fasting and prayer; the great Yo He Wah, the Deity, was invoked. The skill displayed in these games was much greater than at present. We are told that the ball was sometimes kept from striking the ground during the whole contention. The old writers lay special stress upon the fact that this game tended to increase the power of self-control; that it was thought to be excellent mental training. In June, 1763, the great Pontiac assembled the Chippewas and Sacs at Fort Mackinaw to have a game of baggatiway; of course every one attended, from the commandant...
...college man or the recent college graduate as either hero, villain or important character in novels, seems to be growing decidedly popular. Not only as heretofore is it common to find some of the more important characters in a tale incidentally spoken of as college graduates, but more stress is often laid upon this fact than has been usual heretofore, and college students themselves more often come to occupy important positions in the plots of most novelists. All this is indicative, we think, of the increasing influence and importance that college men, as college men, are assuming in ordinary society...