...quoted elsewhere and I quote here what can hardly be too often quoted, a remark of President Eliot's : " I recognize but one mental acquisition as an essential part of the education of a lady or gentleman — namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue." So few people make this acquisition,...

...have too much to do already. President ELIOT was not far from right when he said, a few days ago, " I recognize but one mental acquisition as an essential part of the education of a lady or gentleman, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mothertongue." It is this that gives to men mastery...

...THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. JUNE, 1880. THE CLASSICS THAT EDUCATE IIS. BY PAUL K. SHIPMAN. I HAVE great respect for the classics, and would do anything...natural and physical science, metaphysics, history, and aesthetics are all profitable and delightful, both as training and as acquisitions, to him who studies...

...a university has gone so far as to say, in an oft-quoted sentence : " I may as well abruptly avow, as the result of my reading and observation in the...gentleman, — namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue." We should, however, not blind ourselves to the fact that the reform has only begun....

...what language ? Most emphatically, first, our own ! President Elliot, of Harvard, says, "I may avow, as the result of my reading and observation in the...education, that I recognize but one mental acquisition as the essential part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely : the accurate and refined use of...

...something by the President of Harvard University : ' I recognize but one mental acquisition as the essential part of the education of a lady or a gentleman, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.' That's English, you know. ' Greek, Latin, French, German, Mathematics,' and a whole...

...should be bidden, universally, to come up higher. 'I may avow,' says President Eliot, of Harvard, ' as the result of my reading and observation in the matter of education, that 1 recognize but one mental acquisition as an essential part of a lady or a gentleman — namely, an...

...import of words to express their full significance. President Eliot, of Harvard, says : " I may avow, as the result of my reading and observation in the...but one mental acquisition as an essential part of a lady or gentleman, and that is an accurate and a refined use of the mother tongue." Pure idiomatic...

...and high-school courses of study. President Elliot, of Harvard, says : " I may as well abruptly avow, as the result of my reading and observation in the...as an essential part of the education of a lady or gentleman, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue." (7.) Elementary Psychology. Psychology...

...forth the universal mind of Shakespeare*." "I may avow," says President Eliot of Harvard University, "as the result of my reading and observation in the...as an essential part of the education of a lady or gentleman — namely an accurate and refined use of the mother-tongue. Greek, Latin, French, German,...