Word: texted
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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INSTRUCTOR. I am sorry that the text-book gives no fuller account of this extraordinary...
...other articles are upon subjects which can be taken directly from common text-books, and are simply statements of facts already well known. When we read the Natural Science and Agriculture, The Household and Young Ladies' departments, we are forced to wonder what constitutes a Western college...
...standard than the admission examination of any other college in the country," etc. (See Report, page 11.) To disprove this he brings forward a copy of an examination paper on Latin composition, which has in its foot-notes Latin equivalents for most of the English words in the text. He leaves his readers to infer from this single copy that all examination papers presented to candidates for admission to Harvard are of a similar easy character. Such a conclusion is manifestly erroneous, and unjustified by the facts in the case...
...friend's room around the fire, and conversing on the various subjects suggested by life here. Men from all quarters of the country, it is said, come together, and the ideas a man obtains from conversation are worth more to him than all the contents of his text-books. But the truth is, that men in different sets rarely meet to join in any long conversation. A college paper, however, furnishes a place in which communications, from all members of the college, can be printed, and men the most unlike can thus exert an influence on each other far more...