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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Ruskin's system accomplishes the first of these things, it is able to do some good at least; for, in all probability, our old ideas are wrong. And why should we not study art systematically? If I place a picture of Albert Durer's before an ignorant person, he will doubtless feel none of the beauty which is certainly there. Nor will my saying to him, "This is a beautiful picture," do good. We must all have education in art, as well as in everything else requiring knowledge and judgment; and, in my opinion, this education is best secured...
...probably never have more time at their disposal than here; and yet how few ever think of doing any of that general reading, without a knowledge of which no man can be said to be truly cultivated, not to say educated. To how many is our library merely a place from which to obtain "ponies" and theme-books. The broad principles of self-education, with the college courses and advantages as accessories merely, seem to be lost sight of in the pursuit of inferior ends...
...first place, a few words of a statistical nature. The Thayer Club was founded in 1865 in accordance with the terms of a gift of money from Nathaniel Thayer, Esq. The object held in view by that liberal gentleman was to afford to poor students the means of obtaining good, substantial board at cost price. The club was organized under the form of an independent body, but this independence is now merely nominal, as the Faculty have an absolute veto on any vote passed by the association. The number of students connected with the Club has gradually increased, until...
...neglect by those having the highest authority in the matter, we will simply state the fact that we have now been members of the Club nearly three years, and that during this time not a single member of the Faculty has entered the place where the constitutions, the manners, and, in some degree, the characters of one half the young men intrusted to their care were being formed...
...said, come together, and the ideas a man obtains from conversation are worth more to him than all the contents of his text-books. But the truth is, that men in different sets rarely meet to join in any long conversation. A college paper, however, furnishes a place in which communications, from all members of the college, can be printed, and men the most unlike can thus exert an influence on each other far more effective than any likely to result from disjointed remarks, such as are usually heard in the course of an evening...