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Yale had best look out for her political laurels, for Amherst has entered the race. The text-book used is President Seelye's recent speech on counting the Electoral votes, copies of which are gratuitously furnished by the author to each student...
...Course I will be omitted on account of the temporary absence of Mr. Moore; Course II. will be altered but little; Course III. will become a one-hour elective entirely devoted to the Arts of the Age of Pericles. Lloyd's "Age of Pericles" will be used as a text-book, but the class will not be confined to it, as the course is by no means a text-book course. Since the recitations are but once a week, many will be able to elect it, who have hitherto been prevented from taking courses in Fine Arts because...
This preliminary study in Blackstone, Kent, or some similar text-book, can be much more profitably pursued under an instructor than by one's self; and the man who enters the Law School after having taken such a course has a much clearer understanding of his subject than one who has been over it alone, and is consequently enabled to profit more by his subsequent instruction. A great many men either lack the time or the energy to work up such a subject by themselves, who would eagerly embrace the opportunity of pursuing such a course were it offered...
...University recommends to its students, assuring them that it is sufficient for their preparation to enter on the advanced course of that institution." (The italics are copied from the "A. E. M.") Few could gather from such a question that the Catalogue of Harvard College really says: "No particular text-book in grammar is required; but either Allen's or Harkness's Elementary Latin Grammar will serve to indicate the nature and amount of the grammatical knowledge demanded." Still fewer would conjecture from this question, what all intelligent teachers of Latin in America ought to know, that the book...
Letter-Writing III. would probably be a much more difficult course than either of the others, and would require a thorough knowledge of rhetoric, and of Bain's mental science. The text-book should be Smith's "Epistolary Communication between a Gentleman and his Trades-people." A student having taken this course would be prepared to write such a charming note to any one of his creditors, that he (the creditor) would not only cease asking him for the money, but would offer to pay up the sum in question on the receipt of another letter of a like nature...