Word: fawcett
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...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 III.), Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric...
...only in theory. Of course, any system allowing greater freedom is sure to find sturdy partisans; but the desirability of voluntary recitations has not yet been proved. What the effect of throwing open these Elysian fields may have on the "margin of cultivation" (to quote our amiable friend, Mrs. Fawcett) is uncertain; but a judicious use of the privilege will doubtless make the students' labor easier; a man may get through many subjects, with a recitation now and then, and perhaps get as high a per cent as now, by making use of some elaborate notes and one of Harpers...