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...their duties lies in a general mastery of the text-books provided, promptness in recitations and at lectures, if there happen to be any, and good lessons when called upon to recite. It should be the office of professors and teachers to dispel this erroneous or rather imperfect conception of the means and methods by which an education is to be obtained ; but on the contrary they too often encourage it, because it makes their recitations appear to advantage and saves trouble. It is a lamentable fact, however, that the men in college who are called the best scholars have...
Three thousand physical examinations, said Dr. Sargent in his lecture yesterday, have done much to convince me that the number of men with imperfectly formed chests is very much larger than is commonly supposed. To this fact may be attributed the large percent. of deaths which annually occur from pulmonary diseases. In this State one-fifth of the mortality is due to consumption, and in some other States it is even larger than this. Many men who have large chests and apparently well developed ones, are yet deficient in depth and respiratory power. To the casual observer a flat, depressed...
...fact is that the scholar does not always appear well in politics. Take the government of our schools and colleges. The organization is imperfect. They are controlled too often by private animosities, family interests and compacts, and every form of nepotism, or may become subject to this power of a boss, so that they are not better nor worse than the powers of administration at Washington. Take the organization of the school at Andover, where an old and learned faculty and a large and respectable body of trustees are subject, on the most critical questions, to a board of three...
...impressive solemnity. But all was dissatisfaction. The arrangements were very poor, and little provision was made for the vast throng that naturally attended such an affair. The galleries were at once filled to overflowing and great numbers of people choked up the entrances and aisles. The seating capacities were imperfect and arbitrary distinctions made by the officious ushers, who, in many cases, showed much partiality. During the services, a great crowd continued standing which might largely have been accommodated in the numerous vacant seats forward, from which they were, however, excluded - for what reason it is unknown. The people were...
...subject of Dr. Sargent's lecture yesterday was "How to Develop the Chest." He began by giving statistics of the death proportion from consumption and tubercular diseases, arising from an imperfect development of the lungs and heart. Such affections are often inherited, or result from occupations and circumstances which tend to produce them. Consumption is, however, easy to prevent by a course of physical exercise. In Harvard, only one man out of three has a perfect chest, the principal imperfections being a flatness on the upper part and depression at the base of the breast bone, compression of the sides...