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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON :-Dear Sirs : Having read to-day your article of the 28th, in which you cite Canon Farrar's views in regard to the (socalled) English system of classical education, I trust that, with your usual courtesy and fairness and desire to furnish your readers correct information on the subjects discussed in your paper, you will permit me to offer a few brief remarks, that may tend to modify largely the conclusions that might be drawn from the extract you have given...
...posthumus essay by Darwin on the "Evolution of Instinct" has been found among his papers. It is a splendid example of exhaustive induction, and will be read at a meeting of the Linnxan Society...
...recent number of the Gentleman's Magazine contains an article on the subject which gives in a pleasant way many curious facts. Perhaps that which strikes us first in reading it is the change in the manner of governing students; considering a student a man and not a child. Even as late as 1699 the college records at Cambridge, England, show that offenders were "wipt in the buttry" with a lash, though even here was a great advance, for about a century previous we read that a certain mother gave instructions to her son's tutor to "trewly belassch...
However, like all other students he found the paths of knowledge very steep and hard to climb, and we read the sorrowful intelligence in a letter from the young man's tutor to his mother that "not long since your kinsman being in the Colledge Buttry at Beaver at the pmitted hower between 8 and 9 of ye clock at night, the Deane came in, charged him to be gone, he told him he would and was presently deputing. The Deane tells him, unless Sr Gawdy you bad forthwith gone I should have sett you out : upon that your kinsman...
...through college. Get into the habit of using the library in a thoughtful, systematic, healthful way. It is comparatively easy to form habits that do not bring one into contact with books and especial care should be taken to correct this fault at the outset. Some special courses of reading as fiction or biography, followed out during a whole lerm or year, will probably give the best results, but few of us possess such a methodical turn of mind that we care to keep in the same rut very long at a time. Still whether one reads with some special...