Can this be right in itself, to say nothing of the point of etiquette, as established among wellbred people? If I even had a severe headach, I would refrain from this practice. It looks so much like the vulgar lolling of a school-boy, or a college-lad, who has neither sufficient intellect, nor sufficient respect, for himself or for any other person, to make him a listener, arrectis auribus, to that which is delivered.

12. When any thing is dropped by a Professor, in the course of a lecture, which is supposed to MILITATE WITH THE OPINIONS OF

SOME PUPIL PRESENT, RECEIVE IT WITH GRAVITY AND WITH A FIXED COUNTENANCE. If, instead of this, there be smiling, tittering, a dozen turning round at the same instant, to see how the pupil in question looks, and appears to feel as is sometimes the case among ardent and inexperienced young men,-there is a manifest and gross indelicacy, which on a variety of accounts, ought to be avoided It is ill treat.

ment to the Professor himself, who may not have intended the application thus unceremoniously made. It may be deeply embarrassing and painful to an ingenuous pupil. And it exhibits those who indulge in it, as borne away by an undignified puerility, altogether unworthy of their character. Allow me again to say, that learning the habit of maintaining, on all such occasions, a composed and grave countenance,

is of no small importance in the formation of clerical manners.

13. When called upon to make remarks on the production of a fellow student in the Lecture-room, DO IT WITH PERFECT FREEDOM, BUT WITH RESPECTFULNESS AND GRAVITY.

If you have occasion to make a remark of the unfavourable kind, let it be couched, as far as is consistent with candour, in kind and brotherly language. Pause a moment, before you offer it, and ask this question-" Is the criticism which I am about to offer, intended to display myself or to benefit my brother?" "How should I feel, if it were made in reference to myself?" If you are conscious that it would wound your own feelings, do not, cases, allow yourself to utter it.

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are to resolve never to give pain. times unavoidable, if we would be faithful. But it should never be inflicted unnecessarily; never more severely than is indispensable to the performance of duty; and always with as many characteristicks of studied gentleness and benevol nce as perfect honesty will permit.

14. Never allow yourself, on account of any ordinary avocation, to WITHDRAW FROM THE LECTURE-ROM, until the whole exercise shall have been completed. There is a disposition in many conscientious young men so to magnify the importance of trifles, which attract their

attention, from day to day, and so to indulge the impatience which is apt to characterize that season of life, that they are constantly hurrying from one engagement to another, and often do not allow themselves to complete one, before they begin to run after another; so that they never gain the full benefit of any. This is a wretched habit, calculated to shed a baleful influence over the whole course of study, and, indeed, over the whole professional life. The admirable maxim of the old Pensioner, De Witt, to "do one thing at a time," is of inestima e value. Act on the spirit of it continually; that is, be totally absorbed in your employment, for the time being, whatever it may be, and never leave it till it is completely and well done. Your studies will then be mature and profitable, and the results bear that solid, practical character, which incessant haste, and habits of immethodical and desultory aftention, never can produce Let it be your fixed habit, then, never to quit the Lecture-room until its exercises are fully closed. If the instructions there delivered be of no value, you ought not to enter it at all. But if they be worth your attention, let no petty consideration, ever tempt you to lose a hint or a word.

15. There is a practice indulged, not very frequently, indeed, but more frequently, if I mistake not, than it ought to be. I mean that

of CALLING OUT A STUDENT FROM THE LECTURE-ROOM, in the middle of a lecture or recitation, and sometimes on very slight occasions. That occasions may arise, which will fully justify such a step, no one can doubt. But that it should be ventured upon frequently, and for trivial purposes, merely to gratify a social visiter, or to indulge a fit of juvenile impatience, every one will perceive to be both injudicious, and a mischievous violation of order. It disturbs the officiating Professor. It incommodes the whole class. It may suddenly take out of the room the very individual for whose benefit a particular explanation, then in hand, had been intended, as I have known, more than once, to be the case; and thus do an injustice of which no one can fully estimate the amount. And all this, perhaps, to accomplish something either of no real importance, or which might just as well have been postponed until after the close of the exercise. I would advise you, then, to set your face against this practice, by testifying your disapprobation when it is done with respect to yourself, and by endeavouring to disseminate a sentiment adverse to it among your fellow students.

16. I would advise you to TAKE COPIOUS NOTES, on the spot, of all the lectures which you hear. This habit, when once established, will furnish an additional motive to perfect punctu

ality in being present at every lecture; for you will be unwilling to see a blank occurring in every half dozen pages in your note-book. It will constrain you to pay close attention to every word that is uttered, when you are present. It will aid you in acquiring the art of expressing yourself with brevity and precision. And it will enable you with ease to refresh your memory afterwards. I once knew a student who had a series of note-books which contained the substance of all that he had studied at College, as well as afterwards in the Seminary. And he assured me, that not only had the labour of forming them been of great advantage to him; but that he also considered them, at the time when he was speaking on the subject, as, on various accounts, among the most precious i books in his library.

17. In fine; LET EVERY HOUR WHICH YOU SPEND IN THE LECTURE-ROOM, BE CONSIDERED AS AN HOUR OF PECULIAR VALUE. Re member that the business of a Professor is not to think for you; but to excite you to think : to put you in possession of general principles: to start trains of thought: to state leading facts, rather than the minuter items of history: in short, to open a precious mine, to give you a specimen of its contents, and to unfold some of the best methods of exploring its boundless riches. This being done for you, all the rest must be