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...that "story foot" has effected a miracle like the harp that Orphens played, like the teeth which Cadmus sowed. The plain where the moose and the bear were wandering while Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, where a few plain dormitories and other needed buildings were scattered about in my school-boy days, groans under the weight of the massive edifices which have s rung up all around them, crowned by the tower of that noble structure which stands in full view before me as I lift my eyes from the portfolio on the back of which I am now writing.-Oliver...
Going to France where the student is kept until a later age under the supervision of instructors than with us, we find in the lyceum careful discipline and school-boy training...
...tantalizing. We should so much like to explore the contents of those many, many shelves, and our time was so short ! The ancient things collected in the topmost story interested us very much. One thing we noticed was a Greek text-book used by John Dryden, when a school-boy. He had scribbled his name many times over the pages, school-boy fashion, and interspersed Latin hotes in the Greek, to assist his memory. Then there was a copy of Pindar, which had belonged to Milton, and had his notes on the margin written in Greek, in a small, neat...
...deteriorated; they were not now such men of force as formerly, only one of the leading colleges being as low as, or inferior to it in this regard. The attitude of the faculty toward the students in their methods of government was condemned. The present marking system and the school-boy treatment of the students were wrong. The committee pays a tribute to the genius and ability of President White, yet expresses disapproval of his absence from the university, his giving so much time to political reforms and distributing his energies and those of the university over too large...
...succeeded Dr. Woolsey as president of the college. With the exception of his "Books and Reading" and his "American Colleges" and "The American Public," nearly all of Dr. Porter's books are upon metaphysical themes. But the work which has made his name familiar to every school-boy is his revision of Wesbter's dictionary, of which he has been for many years the principal editor. He has also been a not infrequent contributor to the reviews. President Porter stands, by general consent, in the front rank of American metaphysicians; and his sermons, like his other productions, are marked...