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...Rhetoric there is required Whately's Elements of Rhetoric (Part III.), Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric (pp. 162 - 268, omitting pp. 185 - 186, 216 - 218, 227 - 237). In French a fair knowledge of Grammar and some ability to translate easy French. In Junior Rhetoric the text-book is Whately from the 56th to 388th page, omitting the chapters on Presumptions, and the Lectures on the Professions. A short Outline to be had at Sever's contains all the required amount...
...text-books a man is compelled to buy, in passing through the four years of his college course, would present, if kept together, quite an imposing array at the end of the Senior year. Many of these are disposed of at second-hand bookstores, or handed down to those who come after us in the hard road to learning; but every one retains a few, with perhaps a comment here and there on the text or the professor, if not for their intrinsic value, at least to call to mind in after years these hours of recitation, dragging so heavily...
...hear that the present volume of The Spectrum is to be used as a text-book in the post-graduate courses of mechanics...
...great extent the appearance of a study during our Freshman year. How could it look like a cloister when its occupants were students in naught but name? And then Sam had such an untidy way of leaving his garments on the chairs and tables, and of keeping all his text and note books on the mantel-shelf, to the great detriment of the respectable appearance of the room, and in close proximity to pipes and actresses...
...application of this text is by no means impossible at Harvard. Notwithstanding the present satisfactory state of things, we all hope and look for a still better one in the future. The great bane of our College, its indifference and coldness, is not yet entirely done away with. We must get more warmth and enthusiasm into our lives. Contempt for work, and silly admiration of and reliance on unused abilities and aimless talents, however brilliant, are fatal. This sort of spirit it is which prevents the meeting of students and instructors under any circumstances but those of necessity. Blame undoubtedly...