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...Philosophy 4 the text-book will be Spencer's Principles of Psychology, instead of Bain's works, as advertised. This change is rendered necessary by the impossibility of obtaining the latter books...
...anxiously avoided as a pest. But they cannot always be evaded, for prosiness is not wholly confined to talkers, although with them it is most common. But in books, and in our lecture and recitation rooms, it is but too often met with; and the student, bending over a text-book or within the sound of the voice of a teacher, finds his thoughts distracted and wandering away from the subject, which should absorb his whole attention. Instead of brief, simple, terse statements, easily grasped and understood, we have attempts at profound, high-sounding expositions, whose object is to exhibit...
...Philosophy I. for the coming year, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume will be substituted as text-books for Descartes and Malebranche, which were announced in the Elective Pamphlet...
...restriction that we refer. The idea that novels are not as valuable as other works is certainly erroneous, for some of our greatest scholars advise, and themselves practise, constant novel-reading. But apart from its literary value, a novel may be as necessary to a student as the dryest text-book in writing a theme, on some great novelist, for instance. We sincerely hope that the annoying restriction may be done away with...
...course, in any work upon the subject of Rhetoric, - a subject in which individual taste plays an important part, and learned doctors disagree, - there will be some statements which may be questioned; but for the purposes of a text-book there is little in Professor Hill's work which does not merit the highest praise...