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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...placed in that portion of the country which has been termed "the classic ground of America," embracing some places, descriptions of which many have perused since their first juvenile acquisition in the art of reading, but containing others which are not of such world-wide celebrity, yet none the less instructive. Within a radius of a few miles from the College there is abundant material to engage for a long time the earnest attention of the antiquarian, and subjects, too, in which every one interested in the history of his own country should take a just pride. Yet the number...
THOSE interested in the Gray Heliotypes will be glad to hear that there will be an opening of about fifty new subjects in a fortnight or less at the University Bookstore. The subjects of the heliotypes have been carefully selected by Mr. Osgood, and, though most of them are modern (Toschi's engravings after Correggio, and others after Titian and Raphael), there will be found Durer's "Life of the Virgin" and probably the whole of Blake...
There is no delusion produced by the nobler title of professor; we know the difference both in the manner of giving and the instruction given. The relations between instructor and learner are different, are less restrained and more sociable...
...which leads him to place a barrier between himself and his associates, ought to be strenuously guarded against by all such, and he should endeavor, by a more friendly association with his friends, to call into action those hidden springs of feeling which all possess to a greater or less degree, needing only culture to form the strong ties of friendships which are as oases along the otherwise desert path of life...
...appeal to the "educated," who are, after all, only students who have graduated from college, and forgotten much if not most of what they have learned there, who cannot act so much as a unit, and who are not so easily accessible as students. Though the latter are less numerous, they should not find themselves entirely neglected, as they are now, on that account. You will very probably say that educated men gain an experience of men and affairs, after leaving college, which gives them this greater consideration, - and who will not agree with you? - but it would be hard...