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Class Historian-T. M. Parrot...
...rear of the boat, where parallel bars, etc., have been erected. The men exercise there during the evening, often having interesting sparring and wrestling matches for their amusement. As we bade our courteous guide farewell on the upper deck, we noticed the purser with a green parrot - the ship's pet - seated on his wrist and swearing volubly, - the last words we heard upon the "Wabash." We descended into the scow, which was waiting, the windlass turned, and we were once more on dry shore and heading towards Cambridge...
...rather than to living languages. The study of Modern Languages is made to engage the memory alone, and those who undertake the study tend. in consequence, to "become simple information-machines, stuffed with systems of facts that they have no chance to digest ; and they come to play mere parrot roles, learning their task-work without any stimulus to awaken their powers of observation or shape their judgment...
...pleasant novelty, in that it unites with a common interest so many of our centrifugal institutions of higher learning, would be unpractical as a permanent plan. When the utility of the school, as bringing life and sympathy into the study of antiquity, too often arid and dead under the parrot like methods of instruction hard to avoid entirely here a study indispensable to an adequate grasp of the significance of civilization and the scope of human intelligence-is brought before the public, it is desired and expected that some of our many munificent friends of learning will by endowment place...
...Patten, '86, who has never rowed on a crew before, is spoken of as quite promising. He is very strong and already handles his oar in unusually good form for a beginner. If Hyndman, of last year's crew can be induced to row he will probably induce Parrot also to take a seat in the boat with him, thus making four old 'varsity men in crew of 1884. Taking everything together, Yale will, in all probability, present a fine crew on the Thames next June...