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After dinner I sit down by a mast and study Herbert Spencer on Style. (N. B. I was conditioned in Rhetoric.) Presently a very common-looking man shouts out, "Stand by to hoist that Spencer." Thinking he refers to my book, I secrete it in my coat-pocket. Several sailors pull at a rope and a sail goes up. The men utter such discordant cries during the process that I go to the captain and complain. He tells me to telegraph to New York and have them dismissed. I ask him in what part of the ship the telegraph-office...
...gone over this year. Sophomores may anticipate History, Political Economy, Physics, Rhetoric, and French. Rhetoric and Philosophy may be anticipated by Juniors. The examination in History will include Freeman's Historical Outlines (Chaps. VI. - XIII), and Guizot's History of Civilization (pp. 61 - 237, omitting pp. 189 - 192). The books on Political Economy are Mrs. Fawcett's Political Economy for beginners, and Alden's Science of Government (Chaps. VI. - XVIII., and pp. 262 - 264). In Physics the books are Balfour Stewart's Lessons in Physics (pp. I - 263). In Rhetoric there is required Whately's Elements of Rhetoric (Part...
This and other like opinions which the author holds in the latter part of his book, together with a somewhat obscure manner of expressing his ideas, make it but an indifferent text-book, though as an expression of the present position of philosophy it is of great value...
...desiring to see a rather extravagant example of the spirit that crops out in all our exchanges from mixed colleges, will find it in the Cornell Era of May 8, under an article on "Dancing and its Results." They must read the Bible and Prayer-Book a good deal at Cornell, for in two articles in this number they succeed in working in four phrases cribbed from these standard authorities...
...Amherst Student consists largely of Locals, Personals, Exchanges, Eclecta, Book Notices, and so forth, though there is an interesting letter from Heidelberg, and a very gushing article, called "A Plea for Nature," in which we learn that, "frantic worshippers of the pen, we cast ourselves before the ruthless car of knowledge, and the love of the natural, the beautiful, is crushed out of us forever." As Mrs. Partington says, "La, that's just what I told my daughter...