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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dared to reply: "L'Etat, c'est nous, c'est la representation de chacun de nous." I don't count upon the state for reform. I think that although national education is what should interest it the most, nevertheless it is not the state that ought to give it, any more than it should furnish us our food and clothes. A reform in instruction can never come except through liberty of instruction, - every one free at his own risk to open a school; each commune looking after the education of its own children. There would thus be a healthy emulation...
WITH the present issue we conclude the series of French letters by V. J. R. for this year, hoping next term to be able to give our readers a continuation of the series about superior instruction, and student life in Paris. We felt at first somewhat diffident about publishing serially what would be much more effective in a single article of a larger publication; but, as far as we can judge, the experiment has thus far proved satisfactory to our readers. Certain it is that those who keep their old Magentas have in the numbers of the past year...
That a private library may give full enjoyment, the books composing it should not be bought for show or to lie forever unopened, but because each supplies a want, fills its own place in our circle of silent, thoughtful friends. Such a library can neither be purchased at wholesale nor in a hurry; it must be gathered carefully, and during our college course, and while our thoughts are constantly turned to books, is the natural and fit time to begin the collection...
...previous to the examination. Now there is a way of looking at this plan so that it will appear a good one, but such a point of view is one which only one of the most ardent seekers after hidden beauties could discover. The advantage claimed is, that to give a good abstract will require a thorough knowledge of the book. The disadvantages may be summed up in the assertion that to give a good abstract of sixty closely printed pages in sixty minutes requires some of the purest cramming ever employed in Harvard College...
...extra pages, it seems to me the only method of accomplishing in any measure what is required. These examinations demand cramming, and little else, and as such, they are grossly inconsistent with the avowed opinions of all instructors on this matter. The plan does not differ much from giving out the questions of an ordinary examination a day or two previous. The examinations amount to so little as showing the real knowledge of those examined, that, although a good deal of time is uselessly spent in preparation for them, it would be very unfair to give them any importance...