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...Abbreviated Longhand," is the title of a neat little text-book from the pen of Wallace Ritchie. The topic treated sets forth a system of note-taking which may be learned in a short space of time by any student, and which materially diminishes the amount of drudgery attendant upon lecture courses. "Punctuation and Capitalization," is the title given a text-book devoted to the especial consideration of these important branches of rhetoric. The subject is treated in an eminently practical manner. Both the above works are from the publishing house of J. B. Huling, Chicago...
...make a report upon the results of his voyage of discovery. In physics a student may be instructed to study certain peculiar phenomena. In American history he may be permitted to devote his attention for a time to one series of events. Subjects, rather than a single text-book, are studied. The remark of Lessing, that the second year the truth is more important than the finding of the truth, is thus illustrated. The advantages of this method are great. The use of books and of authorities is taught; and, above all else, a vigorous and discriminating intellectual discipline...
Members of '87 who last year took freshman German under Professor Lutz may be interested to know that "Der Zerbrochen Krug" has been adopted as a text-book for the use of the Yale juniors...
...text-book for German 6 not having arrived, the remaining recitations will be devoted to reviewing...
Spanish I. is soon to take up "Eco de Madrid" as a text-book...