Word: uses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...what good will a college education do unless you can use it? The very period of your life when you should begin to think and act for yourself, when you should be gaining a practical knowledge of men and the world, and working with enthusiasm upon your chosen profession, - this time you spend in a life every law of which is unpractical, in studies which are of doubtful use, and in recreations which are absurd, all for an object which is simply that humbug called general culture...
THERE is one rule of the Library which we desire to see modified, and that is the rule which prevents students from taking periodicals from the Library. The theses in many of the courses require the use of the English reviews, and frequently at the hour of closing the Library a student has to stop in the middle of an article, and thus he is compelled to defer his work at least until the next day. While we can see the necessity of keeping periodicals in the Library during Library hours, we think that all magazines should be placed...
...Acta Columbiana contains a long letter advocating the use of Latin Composition. We would suggest that an elementary course in Latin Literature would also be useful, at least to the Editors of the Acta. If these gentlemen were to begin the study of Horace's Odes, they would discover before they had got far (in Lib. I. Ode I, line I, first word), that the name of Horace's chief friend and patron is not spelt Macaenas...
...think it must be because he wants to give the instructor opportunities to enlighten the rest of us. I know the fellow knows a good deal, for, when we were reading the other day about Hannibal's blasting rocks with fire and vinegar, he asked why he did not use nitro-glycerine...
...students would be more particular in both these respects, and if they would not take down a half-dozen books when they use only one, a great many more men would be benefited by these reference books, and the object of the professors in placing them aside would be more nearly realized...