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...appointed, the youths who desire to pass enter a great gate and find themselves in a vast yard wherein are 13,000 small cells. These run in rows, and are numbered; they are each about nine feet high, five and a half feet long, and three feet eight inches wide. Each candidate takes a call, and at daylight receives a paper with which he must deal without leaving the place. Three thousand policemen and servants are near at hand to see that he doesn't play any tricks, and his head would probably be the penalty if he attempted...
...than from any other cause. The high prizes in any of the professions are not to be won without exhausting labor. We hear much talk about genius. All this is very well in its way, but the most practical definition of genius is, extraordinary capacity for labor. No world-wide greatness was ever achieved except where there has been a prodigious capacity for work...
...gentleman of extraordinary attainments in Greek literature, and that his book was unsurpassed in the English language. In 1837 Yale College conferred upon him the degree of A. M., and Harvard did the same in 1847, afterwards giving him the degree of LL. D. in 1868. The wide sale of the grammar called forth other books, and in these the same careful, skillful hand left its marks, and the same sound judgment was manifested...
...under the present rules, is as though in sparring three blows under the belt were allowed before disqualification. The time of taking this stand was at first deemed inopportune by the committee, on account of its nearness to the end of the season, but in view of the wide discussion which the action of the committee has caused, the result may be more desirable in the end. The position of the Harvard faculty has always been peculiar. At other colleges athletics are allowed to take their own course; at Harvard physical training is recognized as an important branch of education...
...Correspondence University" has before it a wide field of usefulness, and its objects must appeal to the sympathies of all friends of education. Its idea is certainly novel and suggestive,-suggestive perhaps of other functions of a similar nature which it does not yet undertake. There are many courses given each year in our best American colleges of nearly parallel scope, on subjects the same or closely connected. In many of these, especially in the higher courses, a certain amount of original work and of independent investigation is undertaken by professors and students in fields comparatively unexplored. As yet there...