Excerpt from The Wellesley Prelude, Vol. 3: April 16, 1892 We who with difficulty drag ourselves to the class-room at nine o'clock, must pity our poor little French friends whose work begins at a quarter after seven in summer and an hour later in winter. Nor have they the relief of long vacations, for beside the rather short sum mer recess, they have only a few days at Christmas. We may expect to find the national charac ter reflected to some extent in the methods of public instruction, and the distinctly practical tendency of the French systems is exactly what we should look for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.