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Educational.
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(Yosino Exkucisks. Wednesday, Juno
27, is the lust day of this tunn and of the
school year. A vacation then intervenes
until September ltt. Several literary en
tertainnicnts will he given at the close of
I he term. Sunday, Juno 21, the Chancel
lor delivers his Uacealauroute address.
Monday evening occurs the exhibition of
the University Union. Tuesday eve tho
annual address will he delivered. We
have not yet learned tho name of the
gentleman who is to deliver tho same.
Wednesday, A. M., Commencement ex
ercises; Wednesday evening, exhibition
of the P.illadian society. There will he
three graduates from the academic do
partinonl, and one from the Agricultural
College. It is not decided nt this writing,
whether those exercises will be held in the
Opera House or tho University chapel.
Tho Commencement exercises, at least,
will probably be hold in the Opera House.
PERSONALIA.
Ed P. Unangst is teaching at Palmy,
ra, Nebraska.
Miss Maud Mullen is teaching near
Wuvurly, Neb.
C. 33. Stratum took n trip homo, for n
few days, recently.
I'rofs. Nichols and Worloy, of the
Normal School, visited tho University
last month.
Miss Emma Williams, formerly of the
University, is teaching one of the schools
of this city.
W. 3'. Rhodes, who has for the past
year been attending school in New York
city, has returned. He will probably iU
tend the University next fall.
EDUCATIONAL.
Aim to use words that are nost appro
priate words that express your ireaning
tho clearest with the fewest syllables. Do
not imagine that a word is appropriate
merely bocauso it is long, or so little used
Hint your listeners aie not likely to know
its meaning until they have consulted a
dictionary. Small ideas are not made
larger by being oxprossid with large
words. An extravagant use of b!g words
is admired only in serio-comic discourse.
Never use the technical words of your
profession unless all of your listeners have
the same profcsMon as yours. Never use
words, whether technical or not which
you suspect your hearers will not under
stand ; because people arc sure to declare
that a conversation was "dull and uninter
esting," when it was too deep for their
comprehension. Tho Amoricamza:
3'rof. Sylvester, an acquisition to the
John Hopkins University, from Cam.
bridge, in an address delivered at that
University on Washington's birth day,
made the following pointed remarks:
Why is it, ho enquired,', that the Mower of
American youth do not resort for their
mental impulse and higher education to
Oxford and Cambridge, instead of to Her.
lin, Leipzig, Jena, or Heidelberg?"
"It is because there they aro welcomed,
to whatever religious communion thoy
are attached or unattached, without qucs
lion and without distinction. It ib be
cause there thoy can rost on tho bosom of
a common mother, who shows kindness to
ijJl and favor to none. ... 1 have
boon struck, almost from tho first hour of
my landing on thews shores, by the mani.
festations I have every where witnessed of
the close intellectual sympathy which ex.
isls between America and Germany. It is
German books that aro rond, it is Gormun
authors who aro quoted, German opinion
on all matters of scienco and loarning
that is appealed to; and as regards com
inunity of work and intellectual tios, 3 do
not think it at all extravagant to assort
that Germany and America belong to one
hemisphere, and wo in England to anolh-or.''
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