Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ought an elective in law to be given in the Collegiate Department of this University, in whose Law School an elementary knowledge of law is indispensable. It must be acquired before entrance, for no time for it is given afterward, and without it the studies of the first year cannot be advantageously pursued...
...however, the college is to be a place of study for those who desire to study, more freedom must be allowed. A thorough education is only to be obtained by co-operation; instructor and student must work together. An education that is to permeate the whole mind cannot be rubbed in, but must be drawn in by the students from outside and at the same time drawn out from himself. The mind, like a meerschaum, is best colored from within. Only by a supply of good material from outside, and a gentle heat of zeal inside, is set free...
...limited, it is advisable that the delays which were frequent on this occasion should be avoided in future. The meetings in the Gymnasium will be very useful in affording students an opportunity to show the results of their winter training, and to encourage sparring, wrestling, and other sports which cannot take place at the spring or fall meetings. The interest which the audience took in the proceedings last Saturday show that these meetings of the association are an assured success...
...officers may be, it is true, overwhelmed by complaints which are poured into their ears by individuals, but in this way the opinion of the majority cannot be ascertained, and no means are provided for the officers to report to us the difficulties that they have to encounter, or to show how impossible it is to satisfy every want. Unless the opinion of the majority is allowed to be clearly expressed, each man thinks that he is sustained in his possibly absurd complaint by the whole Association, and will never be satisfied till his complaint is attended...
Further on the author inspires us with hopes of a still greater reward. He says that if we thus introduce ourselves to the notice of the young ladies in question, it cannot fail to challenge their admiration, while their gratitude may be relied on to an unlimited extent." Is the author sure that he is not promising more for our Wellesley sisters than they are prepared to accord...