Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...only be the privilege of a small number, and not the common rule for all. Moreover, this instruction draws too exclusively on antique sources. It presents us with the society of antiquity in its most flourishing condition. Sparta, Athens, Rome, are shown us as ideal republics. Now it is well known how false the ideas of antiquity were upon what is to-day the very foundation of modern society. It is known what account it made of personal liberty, property, work, etc. Yet once again, it is not the instruction in itself that I decry, it is the generalization...
...history of the game. Before long novelty-loving Americans will patronize cricket, a game of much more real enjoyment than they now are willing to acknowledge. The advantages of the Rugby foot-ball game were seen in the three exciting half-hours of Friday last, and we may do well to instruct our foreign cousins in playing their own game, and then try playing it ourselves...
...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 as they pass. If, however, we collect no books, during our four years at Harvard, except the interlined Euripides or Juvenal, or the well-worn Philosophy, and gather no other works, either in ancient or modern languages, to form the nucleus of a private library, we let slip some of our best opportunities for literary culture...
Some may say that it is not well for a student in college to attempt to gather a library, because, aside from the time it takes, he has not sufficiently mature judgment to select the books which he will want in after life. Although in some cases he may buy those which he will not afterwards wish to keep, yet by exercising his judgment he strengthens it, and forms the habit of noticing books, - a habit which will induce him to pay more attention to his library and to literature generally than among the cares of after life he otherwise...
...order to put in an appearance at all, they are driven to the second crew. Two of the best men have been taken from it and put on the first crew, which, in spite of a new stroke, and a prospect by no means enlivening, is doing tolerably well...