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Letter-Writing I. (three hours a week). - Text-book to be used, "Williamson's Complete Set of Letters from a Son to his Father," comprising beautifully worded epistles asking for an increase of allowance, long accounts of professors, the different college buildings, examinations, recitations, etc., etc., for immediate reference...
...application of the leading doctrines discussed by Mill. Carey's system is to be studied, in order to present the subject as it is seen from the extreme protectionist point of view; and the subject of currency is to be examined, probably taking McLeod on Banking as the text-book. Blanqui's History is likely to be used, we believe, for collateral reading rather than as a text-book...
Fine Arts 3 is intended as a continuation of Fine Arts 2. Fine Arts 1 will go over the same ground again, devoting five hours a week to drawing and one to recitations. The text-book used is Ruskin's "Modern Painters." Marks are given on drawings and on examinations. The examinations include nothing but the parts of Ruskin studied in recitations...
...unsettle this conviction, and we are now inclined to believe that the taking of notes is with some instructors not of much importance; that they still cling to the habit of hearing a lesson recited, without feeling it of much use to add anything to the words of the text-book. For instance, what other views can an instructor hold who calls each day on a large part of his division to write upon the lesson of the day before, while he proceeds to discuss the lesson of the day with the remainder...
Indeed, such an instructor must regard his explanations as of very little value, and think that the text-book contains all that is requisite, when he thus deprives half of his division of all benefit in his instructions, except such very unsatisfactory scraps as can be obtained from those who were not called upon to write. We cannot see the object of this arrangement, unless it be to counteract the tendency, engendered by voluntary recitations, of "cutting" an instructor from whom nothing can be learned outside of the text-book, and we think such "cutting" would be placed...