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...been 'weighed in the balance and found wanting.' It is no epigram, but a simple fact, to say that classical education neglects all the powers of some minds, and some of the powers of all minds. In the case of the few it has a balue which, being partial, is unsatisfactory; in the case of the vast multitude it ends in irremediable waste. To myself, trained in the system for years, and training others in it for years being one of those who succeeded in it, if that amount of progress which has been thought worthy of high classical honors...
...system to which (so far as I know) no other civilized nation attaches any importance, yet which leaves us to borrow our scholarship second-hand from them; which is now necessary for the very highest classical honors at the University of Cambridge alone; in which only one has a partial glimmering of success for lumdreds and hundreds who inevitable fail; and in which the few exceptional successes are so flagrantly useless that they can only be regarded at the best as a somewhat trivial and fantastic accomplishment an accomplishment so singularly barren of all results that it has scarcely produced...
...Their unexpected defeat seemed to thoroughly disconcert them and a corresponding depression has followed their former confidence. No better lesson could be taught the freshmen than the one they received at Andover unless they persist in taking it the wrong way. The eleven is supposed to be only in partial trim during these preparatory games, so success or failure are one and the same so long as a steady improvement goes on. But this improvement does not seem to be going on as it should be and although some time still remains before the decisive struggle with Yale, nevertheless...
...objectionable characters, we might hope for immediate relief. But we can hardly hope for such an appointment at present. In the meantime if every one will discourage these annoying pests as much as possible, and themselves put down all disturbances made by muckers, we may hope for at least partial tranquility...
Wanted-To buy a second-hand outfit or partial outfitted used in Fine Arts...