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Freshman advanced German under Prof. Cook begin a new text-book today. The one discarded was of too fine print, and had to be exchanged...
London Truth furnishes a counterpart to an Oxford story of a solicitor, who, in trying for a degree in law, was "plucked" upon a text-book of which he was himself the author, as follows: "Two of the disappointed candidates at a recent examination for admission to the bar are men who have already attained eminence at the Indian bar, where the practice is substantially the same as in England, and where the standard of the bar is notoriously but little inferior. One of these gentlemen has for some years had a professional income of pound15,000 per annum...
...country. The omission of the duty is of particular importance to the Harvard student as far as text-books are concerned, as in a very large number of courses in college the text-books used are exclusively foreign publications. At present the duty on these books makes the courses in which they are used unnecessarily expensive. It is painful to think of our text-book as a tax upon us for the benefit of a few American publishers, who would not publish such books under any circumstances, however high a duty is imposed. At present there is great doubts about...
...They are very few, not many of them in our college curriculum; and if a professor can't hold the interest of his class while lecturing he had better use a poor text-book. We might learn the whole thing in the time it takes to translate our notes and copy them. What do you say to getting up a petition to have some of these fellows stop lecturing...
...recently that a student of the university at Morgantown, desiring to read the life of Charles Sumner, applied to Professor Harvey, the librarian, for the same. He was told that the book was not in the library, but that if it were he would not get it, as he, Harvey, regarded it as not being a fit book for him to read. Of course not. It is a text-book of patriotism, liberty, philanthrophy and correct politics. It teaches loyalty and calls treason by its proper name; therefore the young Virginians ought not to read...