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...Greek paper. We had been pleasantly informed by a professor that there would be one piece for us to break our heads against. I searched diligently through the paper, but came to the conclusion that all the extracts were equally well adapted for that praiseworthy purpose. Despairing of understanding anything in their paper, I resolved that the examiners should understand nothing in my book. So, being acquainted with Choctaw (a language which closely resembles, yet is totally different from Greek), I wrote in this tongue stories of Indian mythology which I thought might be parallel to the Greek myths. When...
...year, there is need of a social reading-room, to be kept open in the evening, when one has time to look over the newspapers or reviews. The reading-room now in the hands of the undergraduates has never been managed so as to give general satisfaction, and we understand that the finances are not in the best condition. If this room were controlled by the Union, it might be made to meet the wants of the University better than it does now. The door should be kept locked, and each man supplied with a key, so that only those...
...understand that a proposition has been laid before the authorities which involves a radical change in the appointment of proctors. All members of a professional school are to be deemed ineligible, and only those who are pursuing some special course of study will be allowed to hold a proctorship. While agreeing that a change for the better can be made, we hope that the plan proposed, if we are rightly informed as to its aim, will not be adopted, because of its unjust discrimination. Men who have gone through college on scholarships and who enter the Law School, for example...
...Freshie; you can't understand these things. Next year, if you are not dropped again...
...first element of a good teacher should be - after his competency to teach - that he takes a vivid interest in those he is to instruct. He should attempt to know them more than superficially, and to understand their peculiarities and ability, in order to make his instruction as beneficial as possible to each individual. For students cannot all be run through the same mould, like bullets, but allowance must be made for individual taste and proficiency...