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...estimated that the text-books in History 8 will cost...
...illustrated with such precision as is done by Dr. Watson in the explanation of his "Studio and Atelier." This school gives such instruction as has been furnished in the past only by the best technical schools of Europe, and uses "many graphical and abridged methods not yet embodied in text-books, but contained in manuscripts and lithographs." The European system instructs by familiar lectures, fully illustrated with practical examples; and the collections of drawings and models in Dr. Watson's possession enable him to give this instruction as it is given in France, Germany, and Austria. For further information...
...text-books to be used in Greek 7, 8, and 9 are not published in this country, and students are advised to order their books now. In Course 7 the Demosthenes De Falsa Legatione by Shilleto or Heslop is recommended; in Course 7, Plato's Phaedrus by Thompson, and in Course 9, Aeschylus Septem Contra Thebem by Paley...
...took Classical Honors in '7-) I've been teaching Latin here. My position would be very pleasant if the students would only pronounce rightly, and not persist in spelling caelum, coelum, and cena, caena, or coena. The worst of the matter is that they are sustained by the only text-books to be had in this unenlightened district. Just think of it, Jim, while revelling in your texts of Bibl. Teubner., that we poor mortals can get no classics of later date than 1870. Then my pupils will take as models those antiquated old fossils who talked about the rules...
...Sophomore year he published ten volumes on Political Economy, which have now become the text-books - as we all know - of desk, pulpit, and platform...