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...Jones is, no doubt, an able and conscientious instructor, and does for the men under him all that his limited time allows. But when one man is called upon to teach elocution - a subject in which there is especial need of individual attention and criticism - to the whole college, satisfactory results can hardly be looked for. Class instruction may be all very well for beginners, in serving to give them an idea of fundamental rules and starting them in the right direction. But when men have made any progress at all, what they need is individual instruction and a chance...
...terrible murder was committed in East Watertown last evening, the victim being Mrs. Etta G. Carlton. The crime was committed with a large cobble stone. No trace has been found of the murderer, and the whole affair is a mystery...
...live issues of the day," says: "When the student is allowed to select his studies, some care should be taken to prevent him from choosing studies that he is incapable of pursuing successfully, and he should further be required to arrange the work of his whole course in such a way that the successive years should bear some logical relation to one another. The first of these precautions is taken to some extent at Harvard, but the second is entirely neglected there. At the end of his freshman year the student is confronted with one hundred and seventy-four...
...viewing the world that see in it an historical growth, we must fix our attention upon what the world eternally is. For an historical growth that goes on from eternity to eternity is, like an absolutely endless continued story in the newspapers, a sheer contradiction. The world as a whole cannot have a history; for the world as a whole is regarded as limitless in time, while a history has beginning, middle...
...beyond themselves with which they can fail to agree. But how can an object that is wholly out of my thought be actually the object concerning which I am making statements? This difficulty once stated, the lecturer suggested as a solution the hypothesis that our thoughts are really not wholes in and of themselves, but parts of an all-embracing intelligence, of which we ourselves are but parts, to which both our thoughts and their objects are present, forming one whole, and this whole the real world. If the world, then, is an intelligence to which all truth is present...