Word: life
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Whatever my profession in life, the individuals who shall be my patrons, the facts with which I shall deal, will be the people and facts of the present age. What preparation will better fit me to meet the practical demands of to-day than a seven years' study of the politics, literature, and society of ancient foreign and half-civilized nations...
Perhaps I would be a physician. Then let me devote the best years of my life to the Classics. It is far more important that I should know the derivation of the names of my medicines than their chemical composition; the terms of anatomy than the science itself. It is better to know that AEsculapius raised the dead, than to understand the art of keeping men alive...
...synopsis of the life of Bulwer by the Advocate's correspondent will be found interesting to those who do not read the daily journals...
...force of circumstances, fail in exercising it. To such men a college course is narrowing, instead of being expansive, and making them truly vicarious." As friends, we should advise the author to consult the Dictionary before he uses "vicarious" again, and moreover to read Emerson's Essay on "Domestic Life," pp. 108, 109, before he again makes dogmatic assertions...
Perhaps, however, the story is chiefly valuable for affording us glimpses into Yale student life on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. From casual remarks, we gather that whist is a game which is not enjoyed there. Pillow fights are preferred. But even these grow monotonous to the high-spirited Freshmen, and on the afternoon from which the tale dates, we learn that, having stationed watchmen throughout the entries of their building, some Freshmen were indulging in a quadrille. Such an innocent sport is not allowed, however, by the Yale Faculty. It tends directly to worse vices. A step is heard...