Word: texts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...intellectual effort necessary to understand the writings of her great men? Let it begin with the spelling-book of Webster, over which the children of a past generation forgot their toys in their enthusiastic efforts to master the rudiments of English orthography; let it ascend through the grade of text-books to the dictionaries. Let the series extend in this regular grade through the numerous works in all departments of knowledge, in Chemistry, Physics, Geology, Language, and Metaphysics, culminating in Edwards on the Will and Porter on the Human Intellect, before both of which works, we venture to assert...
...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 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...
...Letter-Writing II. the following text-books should be used: Bell's "General Methods of Letter-Writing," containing letters from the collegian to his mother, from the collegian to his brothers and sisters, from the collegian to his grandfather and grandmother; and "Thompson's Complete Letter-Writer," containing letters from the collegian to the world in general...
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...