Word: forli
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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It will be understood that the collection makes no moneyed profit from any of these sales. Its object is simply to foster the growing taste in the community for the higher forms of Art. Beauty cannot be known till seen; till the mind, indeed, is brought into somewhat familiar contact...
PRESIDENT ELIOT, in a few pregnant sentences, has suggested the change, and Dr. McCosh has made haste to declare himself firmly opposed to it. At this point it may not be unpardonable presumption for a student, a party chiefly interested, to express his opinions upon the matter.
The chief advantage the new system will have over the old is that it will compel the students to plan for themselves. This will have the same good effect in college that it has in the outside world, where men who find their judgment a safe guide in some things...
There are also likely to be several other advantages, some of which I will enumerate. The tutors will pay more attention to the system and the matter of their lectures. For the sake of exact scholarship, many things must always be given in the class-room of interest only to...
There will be an opportunity for continuous application to one subject, and for a deeper interest than usual, which shall lead men to thorough investigation. At present this is impossible, when all the time is divided among eight or ten different studies, no one of which is looked at oftener...