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...instruction of a high grade, for their corporations are more experienced, their reputation is sufficient to attract professors and students, and they have a large body of undergraduates who would spur on the resident graduates to make good progress. Still, competent judges think that "Hopkins University" will make good use of its opportunities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW UNIVERSITY. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

...dreamy and romantic. I found Granada perfect, but unhappily Granada disagreed with me. I had been there but two days when my Moorish reveries began to be interrupted by - colic. I tried to walk it off. It was no use. The more I walked the worse was the pain, and finally I reluctantly yielded to fate, settled myself in a charming little room in the very shadow of the grand old Moorish palace, and determined to physic myself into a respectable physical state. I was quite alone. The picturesque Spaniards about me did not look like reliable medical authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACT FROM A LETTER. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

...near relatives, to whom an account of our early lives will be of great interest, and the genealogies may supply many a break made by the loss of the "family tree" or "family Bible," in its passage from hand to hand. Nor is the use of our autobiographies limited to our own race; the Triennial Catalogue, Lives of Harvard Graduates, and other publications must draw their matter largely from these pages. Sometimes a false modesty may deter a man from answering the questions asked him, but this is quite unreasonable; none of the questions are strictly personal in their nature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

...proverbially a paper's vantage-ground, and it seems but fair we should here express in concert what finds daily expression in the jokes or grumblings of individuals. Why, then, does the anachronism still-exist of a rule in the Schedule of the Memorial Hall Association forbidding the use of alcoholic drinks among the diners at the Hall? In the old days, when the unbending sternness of one part of the community had led to disgraceful indulgence among those who refused to yield to such asceticism, it was well for the Faculty to prohibit all liquor at Commons; but times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

Recent developments, however, have tended to unsettle this conviction, and we are now inclined to believe that the taking of notes is with some instructors not of much importance; that they still cling to the habit of hearing a lesson recited, without feeling it of much use to add anything to the words of the text-book. For instance, what other views can an instructor hold who calls each day on a large part of his division to write upon the lesson of the day before, while he proceeds to discuss the lesson of the day with the remainder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND QUERIES. | 1/15/1875 | See Source »