This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. THE INSTITUTION AFTER DUFF'S RETURN--TIFFIN HOUR-- THE SYSTEM OF TEACHING--SCHOOL DISCIPLINE. S the Suez route had been opened, on hia way to India Duff passed through Egypt, which was then under the energetic rule of the celebrated pacha Mehemet Ali, and gave to the world the results of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. THE INSTITUTION AFTER DUFF'S RETURN--TIFFIN HOUR-- THE SYSTEM OF TEACHING--SCHOOL DISCIPLINE. S the Suez route had been opened, on hia way to India Duff passed through Egypt, which was then under the energetic rule of the celebrated pacha Mehemet Ali, and gave to the world the results of his observations in that country in some powerfully-written articles which he contributed to the Calcutta Christian Observer. He passed also through Bombay, where Dr. Wilson was labouring with his colleagues, and described that Mission in a letter to the Convener of the Foreign Missions Committee at Edinburgh, which was published in the form of a pamphlet, entitled, "Bombay in April 1840." At last, in May, he reached Calcutta, and on the second day after his arrival he went to the Institution. We all turned out of our classes to catch a glimpse of the prince of educators and of missionaries. Six years before I had just barely seen him, but now I was to be his pupil, --the pupil of him who had done a great work in Scotland, and whose fame already was in the Churches. He came to our class, and said a few words. With what energy he uttered those words! Each word came whizzing like a cannon ball! The first thing Duff did on his return was fully to organize the Institution, which was at that time the first and best educational establishment in all India. No college in India had such an efficient staff of professors as the General Assembly's Institution. There was William Sinclair Mackay, who had just returned from New South Wales, an accomplished scholar of high culture, thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the literature of Greece and Rome, a graceful writer, and withal the first astronomer in India. There was David Ewart, a scholar of universal...
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