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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...what textbooks are used. But it is of vital importance that the men who study Philosophy should have minds open and receptive to all truth; that every capability of real, worthy enthusiasm should have full development; and that no text-books should be employed which unnecessarily lessen that enthusiasm, whether by the overshadowing vastness of the dry psychological facts there accumulated, or by their adherence to a phraseology that to our modern ears seems stilted and pedantic...
...view of this fact, a good general knowledge of a subject is all that can be expected and fairly demanded of a Freshman. Indeed, it is a question whether a good general knowledge should not be sufficient to carry a man through his entire course, while more remarkable exhibitions of scholarly attainment should be reserved for the honor papers. This Freshman paper in Geometry, however, is a long succession of mathematical puzzles; and we are informed that the scale of marks has been so low that nearly one hundred members of the class are in imminent danger of conditions...
Most of us have heard that the English government watch the debates in order to select the most promising speakers and put them in office; whether this be true or not, there have certainly been many men who were prominent in the Societies and afterwards attained great prominence in public life. For instance, in a list of one hundred and fifty five Presidents at Oxford there are thirty who are marked as M. P.'s, or as in some way connected with the government, while almost seventy have some distinction either of rank or in the government, in the Universities...
These courses are parallel. It is proposed to unite them next year, and to institute an advanced course in the same subject, to be conducted in the same general way. Whether there is at this moment open to undergraduates a course in which Constitutional Law is critically studied we are unable to say. If there be none, it is to be hoped that one will soon be supplied...
...with the High School girls. It complains that many men of "considerable literary ability commit the grossest sins against syntax and orthography," and it holds that spelling-matches will reform them. The writer of this article is certainly free from the faults of the able gentlemen whom he mentions; whether he shares in any of their other characteristics may admit of dispute...