Word: makes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...edition of "Harvard and its Surroundings" bears the evidence of careful revision and judicious alteration. The heliotypes of the different buildings (numbered) are arranged in the same order as the letter-press description, and the map of the Yard is so numbered as to enable the visitor to make its circuit with the book in hand, without being confused by the mystical directions that are found usually in guide-books. A better selection of college interiors than in the last edition is noticeable in the present volume...
...opinion as to whether good reading, in such an elective as this in Shakespeare, is or is not necessary; as to whether it is merely a blessing for which, if he gets it, the instructor is to be humbly thankful, but to enforce which he is not bound to make an effort; or else an absolute requisite, and worthy of the greatest amount of time and attention. In other words, "Is it a part of the study of Shakespeare to read Shakespeare well...
...good reading would not be out of place on the part of the Professor; but if Mr. Child, who has probably been hardened by long tribulation, has decided to pay no attention to this point, it would still be well for those who take the elective next year to make up their minds to lighten his weight and their own, by putting a little more life into the recitations, and trying to find pleasure in what they read. It is strange that so many who think it worth while to take a course in Shakespeare should not think it also...
...object of these words is not to find fault with the work of this year, but to show what another year may be made to bring forth. Mr. Child is beyond doubt in the right about the elocution question; but if he would make it clearly understood that good reading is a desideratum in his classes, and if the students would endeavor simply to pay attention and to be interested (if they did this they would be obliged to read well), then both the advantage and the enjoyment of the course would be doubled. It is somnambulistic and apathetic reading...
...years, rated, on a subsequent consultation of the "curve," at nearly plus 40, we begin to fear that even equations and curves may err. We trust other instructors, seeing that the curve is for once wrong, will be led to overlook their mid-year calculations, and perhaps make a similar pleasing correction...