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...There is one more point upon which we must animadvert, and this is the miserable delivery of the Harvard graduates. After each inevitable expectatur of the President, a youth was seen to mount the rostrum with all the awkwardness of persons who feel themselves in a false position, heightened by the uncouthness of a barbarous habillement, which he had evidently never proved. After more or less unsystematic bowing, each gave his proof of memory for bad prose with all the systematic regularity of cadence exhibited by a machine." - The Round Table, August...
...omnibus line between Harvard Square and Boston is one of the future probabilities. We have all seen enough of high rates and insufficient accommodations to welcome any additional comforts on our pilgrimages to Boston. We suggest that one may come out as a supplement to the last car and pick up the footsore stragglers...
This idea at first doubtless strikes some with horror, who say to themselves: "Miserable plan! to think of a man's not being allowed to choose his own boarding-place!" True, several objections to this plan may be seen; but who ever heard of a project to which objections could not be raised? Let us see how much can be said in its favor. It is unnecessary to state that I do not refer to such a Commons as at present disgraces us, - for it would be hardly less than brutal to compel any one to attend a place...
...same school. That is a custom that the French, whether rightly or wrongly, do not understand, and would not permit. A schoolmaster has charge of a boys' school, a schoolmistress of the girls', - another difference between our schools and those of America, where I have often seen primary schools composed of boys or girls, or both together, successfully conducted by women...
...best possible masters, and makes the greatest sacrifices to the cause of education. Its schools are its glory. It is as proud of them as of its monuments, its bridges, or its roads. The schools are its own, and it cares for them. With us, as you have seen, it is an entirely different matter. The government gives us our teachers; it appoints the officials to oversee them, and the instruction that they give. There is nothing left us but to maintain them...