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...King of Bavaria to a young architect, he chained, was the advice we, of all nations, needed most to heed: "Build your spire first! The others will see to it that the nave does not remain unfinished"-advice the very reverse in purport of the popular maxim of "penny wise and pound foolish...
...another column will be found a communication relative to the altering of old Massachusetts into a dormitory. It seems as if this would be a wise measure, since it would not only increase the present accommodations of the yard, but could redeem from neglect a building which is dear to many of the alumni from the memories which cling to it. By altering the three lower stories into students' rooms, the fourth story could be left undivided and thus be still used for examination purposes. We hope that the faculty may see fit to consider this project at an early...
...study of Arabic and Semetic languages a study of fully as great scholarly interest should be so much more restricted. The intelligent and well directed study of all periods of our history in detail can best beget a reasonable patriotism, and help to promote among educated men wise political counsels and disinterested citizenship. And in no subject is the direction of scholarly teachers through well-planed courses so much needed as in the tentative and as yet almost unwritten subject of American history. It is therefore greatly to be hoped that next year the college may offer an additional course...
...study were fewer and the examinations less numerous, a boy had far greater opportunity of following up any special task than he had now. Subjects which did not tell had now no chance. It was very necessary, therefore, that they should ask themselves whether they were following a wise system or not. A young man might pass creditably, nay, with distinction, through school and college, and find himself when he came to age unable to speak any language but his own, and ignorant of any branch of science, although, perhaps proficient in mathematics, Latin and Greek. Such an education, they...
...most healthy condition of one's faculties, is to establish the habit of anticipation in work. Have some fresh intellectual acquisition always in hand. Some students, after getting fairly settled, merely work on from yea to year with the materials of knowledge already acquired. This is not wise. If the student wants to make steady, healthful growth, he should always have by him some one new study, something in hand that he can turn to from day to day, and give to it at least a few touches. One may soon learn the power of little, as applied to intellectual...