Word: answering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...comparative expediency of studying and of doing nothing, I shall preach to you this time about college work. You ask me whether it is advisable to study or not. It is pretty much as if you had asked me whether it was advisable to be good; and my answer will be the same. Of course you ought to, but sometimes you had better...
...Courant for September 30 has a carefully written article upon college expenses. The writer asks, "Are students as a class extravagant? Is this extravagance increasing?" To answer these questions the following table has been prepared, showing the necessary expenses, covering board, tuition, room, fuel, and books, for every third year from '60 to the present time, as given in the Yale and Harvard catalogues...
...level with their instructors. Parental authority is relinquished, and in place of the imposed self-discipline which the rigor of Puritan teachers imposed on the taught, what have we? There is only one substitute possible, - the personal influence of individual character, - and this is wanting. Do not answer by citing this instructor or that, - I rejoice equally with you in the discovery. But take each class, take each department, and try to point them out to me. No college in the country has conditions so favorable to the strong influence of an instructor's character, provided it exert itself...
There being no other State from which more than a dozen students have come to College, we cannot afford space to enlarge our list. If our readers desire further information, we shall be very glad to answer any questions they may ask us by letter or otherwise...
...answer, then, to the question at the head of this article, we would advise every man who can, as he values knowledge for its own sake, and for the power it gives for the exercise of a good influence on mankind, to forego half of the long vacation, and take advantage of the courses in science offered this summer, varying the monotony of his life (if such it be) by an occasional trip in a yacht to Minot's Light or Nix's Mate, or by a visit to City Point; or, again, by reading some stirring novel like Guerrazzi...