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...came to one of our own graduates, who translated it with ease. "What gymnasium did you come from?" asked the celebrated professor. "From none, sir; from the University of Pennsylvania!" "I do not know much of it," was the reply; "but where you came from they knew how to teach Greek!" And that is beginning to be the world's comment: "We do not hear much of the University of Pennsylvania, but when it does speak, its words tell...
...constitutes thoroughness of research; (2) the detrimental predominance of the collector's frame of mind, and lastly the ill-judged and premarure introduction of allied studies into archaeology. People think it necessary to go back into the prehistoric development of Greek social life and art when they begin to teach archaeology. This would be more logical if the science were a more firmly established one. As it is, the true method of research seems to be to make a study of historical facts and examples of Greek art that we have before our eyes and from them to deduce theories...
...been intrusted - our colleges, for instance - the very opposite course of conduct prevails. Harvard College has not had a professor of oratory for three generations, and this too despite the fact that again and again its graduates and friends have urged it to change its ways and condescend to teach its graduates how to address, in a well-bred yet forcible way, a primary or a town meeting. The only instruction to-day in oratory in that college where its other professors have creditable salaries, is given by a young man called to the inferior office of an instructor...
...oratory of frontier and semi-civilized congressmen in the old days whose deliverances in the Capitol were often grotesque and amusing - speech run mad and descending into oblivion in a very whirlwind of sound. Diseased oratory should give place to orators duly taught by our colleges, which exist to teach uses. It is treason to the republic to send untrained orators into the forum, since the will of many crystallized into laws and oratory is a supreme force to shape the crystals. An unreasoning and ultra-conservative distrust of any ability in any to find or to teach any adequate...
...this is a confession of their failure to educate the people in a very important matter, and shows surely that they refuse to live level with their own times. It is quite as possible to teach oratory at Cambridge as it is to teach chemistry or mathematics, and with quite as satisfactory results. There are to-day and here methods and systems and teachers of oratory adequate to the need, and if Harvard objects that these systems are fragmentary or unfinished, she has both money and leisure enough to take them in hand with her own chosen officials and make...