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Show OLD IRISH COLLEGES. lii "The Story of Irish Civilization," Dr. P. W. .b.vce ives some interesting facts concerning the Id I i-i-!i colleges and methods of teaching: "J suppose those who are accustomed to the grand universities and colleges of the present day, wii!. th, ir palatial buildings, would feel inclined to laugh in the simple, rough-and-ready methods and i'j'pliit.'a-es of the old Irish' colleges. There were ik. comfortable studyrooms. The greater part of the work, indeed, was carried on in the open air when weather at all permitted. Then the little hiuid!..-l tinkled for some particular lecture, and th- serial students for this hurried to their places Ht.d sc:,;rd themselves as best they could on chair, m " -L f' nn. stone, or bank, and opened their books. Tii. re were no grammars, no dictionaries, no simple imroductory lesson books, such as we have now. The students had to go straight at the Latin or ('k icXt, and. where they failed to make sense, i!,.. step)ed in wkh his help. And in this ni-'cl an, yet difficult fashion they mastered the la!!gti.-.(. Yet it was in rude institutions of this i.iVihi-i were educated those men whose names b-. ;: ,v.nowiied all over Europe, and who for the 1" n' ! v.hcn thev lived are now honored as among ill- latest scholars and missionaries that the w..,M . ver saw." |
