Word: reading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...magazine for young folks. To my unscientific mind he succeeds perfectly in what he attempts to do. One of his latest works, L'lle Mysterieuse, is a sort of Robinson Crusoe romance. But there is, after all, little choice among his books, of which everybody should at least read one in the original. Hector Malot's Romain Kalbris is a charming boy's book, which would interest...
...Read this carefully." And he pointed to a scrap from the Advocate which I had stuck...
...read aloud from where his finger was: "'If a student takes an elective over and above the required number of hours, and does not specify which is the extra, he is allowed as many "cuts" a week as he has extra hours -' But, my dear sir, I knew that before...
...right kind. To examine a man on a play of AEschylus and orations of Demosthenes and AEschines cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary for a well-educated man to be familiar with Herbert Spencer; but it is destructive to all true scholarship to urge students to devote so much time and energy to the study of a single author who has not yet completely won his spurs...
...read of Samsoun in the Bible...