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...meaning of "accurate" work, and already more than one school has acknowledged its indebtedness to them as having been the means of improvising the character of the school. This renders the examinations of especial interest to the people of New York and very valuable to the parents whose daughters are educated in the private schools, for in order that candidates may be successfully prepared the principals of the schools are compelled to employ capable teachers, and thus the examinations benefit not only the candidates themselves, but also all the pupils attending the schools in which the candidates are prepared. They...
...ominous hush in freshman and sophomore quarters when Prof. Jackson reached the last batch of third-honor men. Several sophomores had donned their war-clothes under the toga virilis, which in this case may be truly said to have covered many defects. After the announcements were all over, those whose hearts were not unduly weighted down with conditions, rushed to the halls to prepare for the fray. At the east end stood a couple of sophs gazing fondly upon their thirty-dollar darling, which was a striking illustration of the beautiful and useful combined in one, needing only the bowl...
...write essays by the score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley, Park man, and the rest, but who, for lack of familiarity with Scott, must fail in his examination? Is Scott, then, the one writer of fiction whose works an American boy should read? Is there nothing in American literature that should command his attention? Is it your purpose to teach him that Hawthorne, Irving, Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Emerson and Lowell are of minor consequence in comparison with Goldsmith and Scott? Shakespeare is a matter of course, and Milton...
...mill and then flows on with undiminished vigor to the next; but like coal, which is consumed and lost in begetting steam. It is as true to-day as ever that man cannot serve two masters. What names can our civilization show among philosophers, poets and writers whose fame will outlive this century to warm the hearts and fire the imaginations of coming generations? There is less zeal for the true intellectual life to-day than there was a hundred years...
...athletic association has been formed in New York, a description of whose building and general purpose may interest our readers. Among the officers of the club, besides many who have been at one time or another connected with Harvard, are several names that are familiar to the present undergraduates, among them Wendell Baker and James A. Tyng. John S. White, the head master of the Berkeley School, is the president of the association, and its other offices are filled by men well-known in New York City...