Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...apply to the mastery of two or more subjects; facts are multiplied to infinity, theories follow the same progression, and the absurdity of memorizing these in any definite way is but too evident to the man of average ability. For this reason a student's first step in real life is the foundation of his library; he collects about him works on whose authority he can rely, writers to whose judgment he can defer. His next course is to acquire a superficial knowledge of this extended encyclopaedia, so that when necessary he can lay his finger on the right volume...
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...
Some may say that it is not well for a student in college to attempt to gather a library, because, aside from the time it takes, he has not sufficiently mature judgment to select the books which he will want in after life. Although in some cases he may buy those which he will not afterwards wish to keep, yet by exercising his judgment he strengthens it, and forms the habit of noticing books, - a habit which will induce him to pay more attention to his library and to literature generally than among the cares of after life he otherwise...
...better death than shameful life...
...vith avidity and then laffs, not knowink as how he has done wrong, because devoid of all sense of right, and the law of morals. The 'ippopotamus, also mentioned by the Prophet Job under the name of Behemoth, varies the monotony of his other wise hor'nary and hinsipid life by livin' sometimes in the vater and sometimes on the land, - a happy faculty, vich secures him ag'in' all danger of drowning ven a travellin' by vater! The dodo likevise, a vonderful bird from New 'Olland, same size all the way round, don't valk much...