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...little attention is paid by the college and by the majority of professors to the giving of instruction and aid in this more material department of the intellectual life is perhaps explained by the comparatively recent emancipation of the college from former traditional and set methods of note and text-book instruction. It is but lately, since the introduction of the lecture system, that the subject of note-taking, involving as it does incidentally the questions of the systematization of mental methods and the acquisition of scientific and independent habits of study, has become of importance...
Another argument can be advanced which seems particularly applicable to the case in hand; namely, the use of the rifle is of great benefit in strengthening the eyesight, and what could be a more beneficial change for a man who has spent an hour over a text-book in crabbed German type, than to spend another hour in the open air striving to plant his bullets in the eight-inch bullseye, 200 yards from where he stands...
...library was interesting, but 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...
Also leaves from the text-book, and lines on the shoe...
...instruction and the thoroughness of the teaching of the various parts of the curriculum of the military academy are not equalled, certainly not excelled, by any of the institutions visited by them. In several cases they found that standard scientific subjects were taught without the use of any text-books whatever, and the students learned only what little they could retain from short lectures on the subject. At other places there seemed to be a lack of a sufficient number of instructors * * *. In some cases the selection of studies and the attendance at recitations were entirely optional with the students...