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...this, - it becomes of less than vital importance what textbooks are used. But it is of vital importance that the men who study Philosophy should have minds open and receptive to all truth; that every capability of real, worthy enthusiasm should have full development; and that no text-books should be employed which unnecessarily lessen that enthusiasm, whether by the overshadowing vastness of the dry psychological facts there accumulated, or by their adherence to a phraseology that to our modern ears seems stilted and pedantic...
...States and of the Elements of Political Economy. These subjects are kept entirely distinct. The Constitution is first studied, and the recitations are practically lectures by the instructor upon the application and history of the various sections which come before the division. After the Constitution, or at least the text of it, has been mastered, it is laid aside; and the remainder of the year is devoted to the study of Political Economy...
...four months is necessarily of the most elementary description. It is nevertheless practical, for every subject has been illustrated by references to history and by comments upon its working; and there are now two elective courses in Political Science, - the one using the works of Fawcett and Blanqui as text-books; the other that of J. S. Mill. In both courses Bagehot's Lombard Street is studied, and in one of them special attention is paid to the subjects of currency and taxation. These courses are conducted on the very plan which the Post supposes to be unknown in America...
...there are many students who are glad to make use of so favorable an opportunity to gain a wider knowledge of ancient and modern literature and of music. The courses in the foreign languages will also be useful, from the practice that they will give in following the text without being obliged to think of the separate meaning of each word; and only such philological, historical, and grammatical comments as are absolutely essential will be made...
...course under Mr. Norton, and a second and higher course in the principles of Drawing will be established. What is now Art I. will continue to devote an hour a week to Ruskin's "Modern Painters" and four hours to drawing, while the higher course will take up as text-books other works of Ruskin, probably Sir Joshua Reynolds's "Discourses," and possibly the "Treatise on Art," by Leonardo da Vinci...