Word: writes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mind opens and expands like a flower under the rays of the morning sun. Well, I regret to say it, in these normal schools there are no ideas communicated; instead of broadening, they have the contrary effect of narrowing one's views. The pupils are taught to read, write, and calculate arithmetical problems; they are instructed in religion, and, in fine, they are educated, or rather (for the word is not apt) are fashioned, like machines. During the three years that they pass here they turn upon their own footsteps without making a single advance, like the horses...
...write me a splendid letter, and tell me whatever...
...printing these letters it is needless to say that the Magenta does not take upon itself the support of all its correspondents may say. Simply to show what the students of other colleges may think on matters of common interest, and what they may think fit to write, is all that is designed...
...year. But this salary paid, the instruction is still not free. Each child has to contribute in addition what amounts to about a sou per day. Now, fathers - in districts where civilization has not yet penetrated - hesitate to pay this assessment. These people cannot themselves read, they cannot write, and yet they have lived, eaten, even amassed a little wealth, and perhaps have bought a piece of land. Very well; what need of learning in the management of their affairs! To milk cows or hold the plough requires no great amount of science. Then, too, the child can be useful...
Once the close student, "the dig," - the past numbers of the Advocate are my criterion, - was the butt for all the wits; the College ideal was the man of elegant leisure, - his sole duties to smoke his well-colored meerschaum, to write an article for the Advocate, to dress for an evening engagement. All of these things he used to tell us in his Advocate articles were done by him; in fact, were the highest aims of a Cambridge life. Such a hero as he seemed to all sub-Freshman subscribers...