Word: procession
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...such an exercise is beneficial. Even those who never write demand, as a consequence of their practice in this criticism, a higher style of excellence in books and magazines and papers. Not suddenly, of course, do they come to look upon what is mediocre with loathing; but because the process is slow it is none the less sure...
Much is said of the evils of cramming, by which is usually meant the filling of the mind with a multitude of facts a day or so before examination. But cramming applies also to the process of learning perfectly each part of a subject as it is presented in the daily lessons. There are very few really hard students, or else this method of cramming would be decried as much as the other. For many ideas are forced upon the memory without being understood, and whenever this is done evil surely results. My experience, which I think is not peculiar...
...give every one that wishes an idea of the collection, and to cultivate the taste for art more generally, the Curator is now having a few of the principal engravings heliotyped (a process superior to photography, because an indestructible copy is produced), and, should the copies prove satisfactory, they will soon be for sale at Sever's. Students can have them at cost, - twenty-five cents to a dollar, we believe, - so it is within the power of any one to possess a Raphael or Rembrandt for a mere trifle. If this venture prove successful, other copies will follow...