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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Interesting as the book is even to special students, its chief value, we think, will appear if it is used as an introduction to the study of Shakspere. We are pleased to find in it none of the absurdities of the "inductive" school of criticism, which makes what should be a literary work seem like a text-book on graphic algebra or spherical geometry. The method here is absolutely sane and sound, the style is lucidity itself, fact is everywhere kept clear from inference, and there is no gush. There is not a silly sentence in the book. What reader...
...Teachers of Latin in our colleges ought to be grateful to Dr. H. W. Hayley of Harvard for having provided them with a singularly clear and useful 'Introduction to the Verse of Terence.' In the compass of 25 pages the undergraduate can here find about all that he needs to know of the metrical construction of this poet. * * * * Dr. Hayley's modesty disclaims anything in the way of originality, but there are several places (notably his treatment of the fifth foot of the senarius) where he has discovered how to make clear brief statements of facts in matters where there...
...with its short-sighted policy of making the examinations ends in themselves, is a thing to be frowned down. But so long as examinations are the only means of discovering how faithfully a student has performed the work assigned to him, just so long will every one of us find it necessary to clear his memory on points which have grown hazy, and the sluggard will try to do three months' work in three days...
...which this overwork causes. The fact that scholarly ability is not more highly regarded here among students is to be regretted, and regretted deeply. The men who work too hard for the scholarships are not to be blamed. They have no choice. They must take the system as they find it. The system is what is wrong...
...rather than athletics to study. It is simply an undeniable fact that some men do injure their health by excessive study; cases are not unknown of students who were made ill by a little light exercise in the gymnasium. It is as a corrective to this tendency that athletics find their chief justification...