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Fear no longer the world's alarm...
...FRIEND has taken the trouble to send us an extract from the New York Journal of Commerce which denounces college boat races as being a nucleus of blacklegs, betting, and every instrument of Satan to give young men "their first lessons in the evil world." The article, as the writer says, was written under the impressions made while belated at Springfield, and suffering from the bad digestion of a Massasoit pot-pourri meal. This accounts for the gloomy view taken; but as regards the expressed opinion that races would be better rowed at home, and "subject to the inspection...
...Every Saturday comes to us full of good reading-matter. A new serial, entitled "Far from the Madding Crowd," authorship unknown, bids fair to create a new sensation in the world of novels. Any one who may have had difficulty in comprehending the game of Ombre, in Pope's "Rape of the Lock," will find it elucidated at some length in the number of February 14. An editorial department devoted to literary criticism is ably conducted...
...almost inevitable, even with the best instructors, that, through long service, they fall into certain mechanical methods of teaching, of which they are not themselves aware, but which are injurious in the extreme to the student, and can only be detected by a man from the outer world. The really striking and important points of a subject - those which, if pointed out with enthusiasm, would at once interest the student - are too often passed over, and comments made only on insignificant details. This failing is, of course, the most natural thing in the world. In fact, it is difficult...
...have shown you the defects of our system. Does this mean that I regard the French people as inferior to the other peoples of the earth? Not at all. I believe that our intelligence is as great, our mind as open, as that of any other nation in the world. Simply, we have never been able, or known how, to take advantage of our resources. We are a people of routine, bound down by the deadly fetters of a bigoted clergy, which abhors everything modern, whose ideal is in the past, in the dark centuries of the Middle Ages. What...