The Trinity Archive, Vol. I, No. 7, May 1888

Among the latest features of the present system of teaching English in our colleges, may be mentioned the introduction of what is generally known as “parallel reading.” Formally the student was required during the great part of his college course, at least, to study only text books, which tend to train rather than fill the mind. No question should be of greater importance to a developing mind than what should I read? This is a question which the student cannot decide without help. If the mind were originally able to grapple with great subjects, this would not be a perplexing question, but like other things, the mind has its infancy, at which period the directing hand of one more experienced, is quite indispensable.