Word: lessons
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nothing can be farther from me than to be personal in my remarks. The anguish of defeat is too great to be augmented by harsh words; but defeat, though unpalatable, is often salutary. Had Americans, and especially Harvard men, instead of deluding themselves with patriotic excuses, taken a wholesome lesson from their plucky and honorable defeat on the Thames, more silk flags would adorn to-day our Alma Mater...
...behavior and language which cannot command the approval of sober-minded men. At the same time, there is a good side to all this. Every man must sooner or later learn to take care of himself; and nowadays most men come to college at an age when this lesson is by no means premature. At first the wickedness of the world seems overpowering but before long they find that it is possible to live in a very wicked world without being very wicked. After all, too, the college world is not so very wicked. It talks in an unprincipled...
...account of Boston ends with some reflections on fashionable education; children, he deplores, are taught that "what they are is of little consequence, but what they appear to-be is of importance inestimable." Young men read novels, and the "sight of a classic author gives them a chill, a lesson in Locke or Euclid a mental ague." Young ladies "sink down to songs, novels, and plays." The reverend President is particularly severe towards the young ladies, and solemnly warns them that "between the Bible and novels there is a gulf fixed which few novel-readers are willing to pass...
...with which a student of the French language should be acquainted. The works themselves will be shown and tested in the class. Occasionally an hour will be devoted to the study of some difficult text, when those who wish to do so may take an active part in the lesson, using the books to look up embarrassing points, and thus learn to clear up for themselves not only difficulties of language but such as arise from insufficient knowledge of French usages or institutions...
...text-books to be used in the course will be announced at the first lesson...