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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...languages may be conveniently studied during the year, and if all facilities are improved it is not incredible that in a single year more may be learned where almost every word uttered and line written are those of another language, than here where the same subject is found only in text-books...
CONNECTED with this subject is another; the manner of taking one's meals. Memorial Hall has often been suggested as the place where Commons ought to be, and a writer in our columns has argued that Commons should be made compulsory. But to us the English method, where breakfast could be provided in the room of any student, has always seemed pleasant; of course the arrangement here, quite different from the English, would make it impossible for the College to do such a thing. But really, to prepare a plain breakfast not much work is necessary, nor to prepare...
...question of temperance, and the prohibitory law, so often discussed by our newspapers, demanding, as it does, a large share of the public attention, and in nearly every part of the country the subject of legislative enactments, although hitherto it has been alluded to but casually in the College press, deserves the thought of those undergraduates interested in social and moral problems, who expect hereafter to engage in affairs and deal with the tangled knots of reform. Delicate to handle it undoubtedly is, like everything that has to do with the practice or views of a man's associates. Moreover...
Touching the subject, however, the tone of our English exchanges is too patronizing to be agreeable. After striking hard at the rowing of the "States" generally, taking away whatever credit Walter Brown may have deserved for whipping Sadler, and advising any other American representatives to stay at home, they tell us to keep on rowing, striving as heartily as we have done, and perhaps the next generation of Englishmen may meet us on the water as equals. At present it is deemed but idle for even a second-rate crew to measure oars with the best we can bring...
This judgment will perhaps surprise you. It would need, I confess, some further developments before being accepted as true in a free and Protestant country. But these considerations lead me too far from my subject. I come, then, to what is the subject of this letter, - the Primary Schools...