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...object of the College officers was to bring up the students to be as matter of fact as possible, they could not devise a more ingenious method for accomplishing this result. In fact, under such a system, it is a wonder if there is any sentiment left among...
...practical advantage of the most radical reform exists only in theory. Of course, any system allowing greater freedom is sure to find sturdy partisans; but the desirability of voluntary recitations has not yet been proved. What the effect of throwing open these Elysian fields may have on the "margin of cultivation" (to quote our amiable friend, Mrs. Fawcett) is uncertain; but a judicious use of the privilege will doubtless make the students' labor easier; a man may get through many subjects, with a recitation now and then, and perhaps get as high a per cent as now, by making...
...system of signals the positions of the different boats at every half-mile will be known at the finish, - a system as effective and less expensive than that of telegraphing. Harvard's quarters are not chosen finally; but the most retired and comfortable ones will be obtained. The hotel accommodations are unequalled elsewhere; the lake is easily accessible; low prices are promised; and, in fact, it would seem that every condition of success, in this direction, will attend the regatta...
...majority, and, in any case, at the first occasion they abandon a position which offers few advantages in return for numberless annoyances and troubles constantly recurring. Indeed, I have not been speaking so much of instructors in particular as of the whole class, and especially of the deplorable system by which they are formed, or, rather, de-formed...
Besides this system of communale schools, there are other powerful schools which exercise a very general influence. These are directed by priests and sisters of charity, and are called Christian, as if the others were not. I leave you to judge what instruction or notion of education men can give who are the avowed enemies of the modern spirit of progress, that spirit which has taken for its motto, liberty, enlightenment, progress. If I have in any degree been successful in my endeavors, you should now have a clear idea of the state of public instruction in France...