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...more important studies. And this may happen, not through any desire to lessen work, but by an imperfect knowledge of the subjects and their importance. There seems no objection to giving, at least, a choice to Freshmen, as, for instance, of different authors; but even this, on consideration, may appear as of doubtful expediency. A class entering college should be in all respects a unit, and there should be among its members as much emulation in one study as in another...
...present system of phonography; and if any have been at all interested by this description, I assure them they will be much more so by looking over the works of either Munson or Graham. But I must not close without a warning against the seductive gentlemen who appear now and then in our rooms and offer to teach the whole system in six easy lessons. There are no short cuts in phonography; it is safer to keep on the high-road...
Condemned him in human shape to appear...
This limitation may be a good one year after year in class, but it does not appear so clearly reasonable when made to check those who may wish in any particular year to offer a greater number of modern languages and afterwards to pursue other studies...
...feeling has always existed, but is become noticeable now, as until lately it was almost impracticable to secure a single room. Within a year or two the rule has been made that the rooms in Grays shall be occupied by one student only. In other buildings, also, rooms appear to be given to a student who applies without a chum as freely as to him who applies with...