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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...public institutions there are also schools founded and governed by individuals, either secular or under church influence; so that in a certain sense it cannot be denied that liberty of instruction exists in France. Any individual of good record who has attained a certain rank at the University can obtain permission to open a school and obtain pupils. But, on the other hand, this liberty is fettered to such a degree that it can hardly be said to exist...
...young ladies who after 1874 obtain degrees will use them, if for nothing else, at least to make a bustle...
...that it had as many, or even any, merits which might be told! It must be remembered that the proposed Commons is to be in a room much more elegant than any in which students now take their meals, and where, by proper management, all, without being crowded, could obtain good board at a reasonable price; for, strange as it may seem, there are some every year who wish to be admitted to our present Commons, and are kept out for want of room...
...professors not only give us the conclusions from a life study of their special subjects, but also show us how simple and natural the methods of experiment, how numerous the sources from which we may obtain materials, and that the process of thought on subjects most remote from the mind in its early years is in no way different from that we have employed many times on familiar subjects. Their greatest desire and most beneficial service is to infuse every mind coming within their reach with as great an interest as possible in the subject to be studied, leaving...
...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, and more, for you to show that this experience differs in any marked degree from that which the comparatively illiterate can and do obtain as well without ever stepping within the portals of a college. It is not yet sufficiently plain to us, furthermore, that nearly all our good political leaders have been scholars, and almost all the bad have not. On the contrary, it has been our impression that so nearly have...