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...Huxley's visit to this country evolution has been the prominent topic of discussion in scientific circles. So various have been the opinions which we find in the papers from day to day, that a clear explanation of the theory could not fail both to please and to instruct many who have been puzzled by the conflicting opinions they have read...
...course nothing more than a mere outline can be attempted in the narrow compass of eight one-hour lectures. But Mr. Perkins possesses the happy faculty of condensing much information into a little space, and also of presenting it in such an attractive way as to interest and instruct at the same time. Without striving to be what is called a popular lecturer, Mr. Perkins supposes in each of his hearers an interest in the subject, and to such his lectures cannot fail to be of profit...
...written examinations are necessary, then let us have an hour, or some part of an hour, given entirely up to them, as thus the instructor would be more just both to himself and to those he professes to instruct. The only possible reason we can discover for thus mingling together examination, lecture, and oral and written recitations in one short and distracted hour is the trouble of looking over so many blue books, which an hour's examination of the whole division would require; but we think there are few instructors who would thus allow the love for their...
...game. Before long novelty-loving Americans will patronize cricket, a game of much more real enjoyment than they now are willing to acknowledge. The advantages of the Rugby foot-ball game were seen in the three exciting half-hours of Friday last, and we may do well to instruct our foreign cousins in playing their own game, and then try playing it ourselves...
...unquestionably believed." This is hardly clear. Surely no one will presume to deny that there was an Inquisition, operated chiefly by the Dominican Order, in the name of the Popes, and that its proceedings were very horrible indeed. We are innocent enough to believe this; can the Owl instruct our innocence? Some one else declares that "the exercise of common-sense but for a minute" reduces the difference between Romanists and Protestants to a mere doubt respecting the profitableness of invoking the Virgin. The writer would surely have said otherwise had he exercised his own common-sense a minute longer...