Word: welled
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...future it will be well for undergraduates to uncover themselves when about to address the watchman. We have reason to believe that neglect to do this, twice repeated, will be construed into "systematic insult of a college officer...
...NOTICE, in the list of the elective and required studies for next year, a Sophomore elective included under the head of Natural History, entitled "Physical Geography, Meteorology, and Structural Geology." About this course I have something to say. I am well aware how guarded...
...much better to be moderate in business and study, as in other things! We might well copy, in this respect, the more staid and phlegmatic English and Germans; to be sure, these have their faults, but the most certain way to gain any end is by a safe and thoughtful process, rather than by a violent, hasty action; and the straightest path to success in study is not by excessive application, but by a judicious and reasonable division of one's time between diligence and diversion...
...elected this course feels that this method of teaching is not a very successful one. To memorize these names and properties is a useless task unless the objects to which they belong can be examined. Would he who had never seen a beautiful landscape paint one as well as he who had? Is it not foolish to attempt a study of the anatomy of animals without specimens? If we have given any mineral or rock, can we remember its color or its degree of hardness better by reading about it, or by actually seeing and handling specimens of the subject...
...feeling because the outside world, "hard, cold, and avaricious, recognizes no such sentimentalities." What then? Must we make our little college world "hard, cold, and avaricious," too? If such is the character of the big world, let us have the two realms as different as possible. It is very well to sneer at the "romance" and "sentiment" of class feeling, but, there is very little danger of a Harvard boy's mind being filled with too much of these notions, which, after all, are not so bad and undesirable as our cold, practical writers describe them...