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...called) learned professions a young man fails at the outset oftener from his ignorance or inexperience of society than for want of ability or attainments; and it is by no means rare for a man to make a signal failure in one place, and to have an equally signal success in a second, in which he has profited by the experience of the first. A year or two in a school may save the teacher one remove, if not more, when he shall have become a doctor or a minister...
...second year, though a teacher of real merit is never seriously injured by them, and in good time learns to regard them for no more than they are worth. The teacher who goes to his work directly from college can hardly fail of satisfying, if not brilliant success, if he will bear two counsels - the quintessence of early experience and long observation - in mind. One is, undertake to teach nothing that you do not fully comprehend, nothing which is not as fresh in your mind as you want to have it in the minds of your pupils. The other...
...members, to which the consideration of death is both repugnant and unnatural. All our pursuits have a direct bearing on our immediate future which they presuppose, and therefore our future as a whole is apt to find no place in our calculations. We are eminently a hopeful community. Success in some one or other of its forms seems so certainly to await us on graduation, that we are impatient of delay, and hail the day with joy which introduces us to life, and bids us put to test the mighty projects fermenting in our brains. At this time of life...
...should be very glad, at the end of this month and a half of the trial of voluntary recitations, to lay before our readers some report relative to the success or failure of the plan. This, unfortunately, is impossible, as several of the instructors have not yet returned their lists of absences. We have been allowed a cursory examination of the books, however, and so few are the marks on many of the pages that we can with safety congratulate the Senior Class on the way they have started under the new system; there is no cause for discouragement...
Still, it must be admitted, that the reports from Vassar give evidence of success, sufficient to rescue from doubt the possibility of training women in the branches of study pursued at our larger Universities...