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...otherwise than by annual charge upon the tax-payers. One reason was that such education was too essential to the community to remain a subject for legislative vagaries; another was that it should be religious, not to say sectarian; a third reason was the inevitable increase of a citizen's burdens as a bachelor for the luxury of a college education of the children of his wealthy neighbor. One of the motives that had led the people to establish schools for higher education is the conviction that by so doing primary instruction is better secured. The higher education gave...
...students competing for the Townsend prize the following: "Regulations of Inter-State Commerce," "Strikes," "Recent Decision of the Supreme Court on the Civil-Rights Bill" and "Government Control of the Telegraph." Congress and the country at large will await the settlement of these important questions with breathless interest. [Lowell Citizen...
...Princeton Review for January, there is a very able article on the college of today, in which the writer advances some very sensible and timely views on the subject of college and university education. He begins by asking whether the most of people are better citizens and better men and women for possessing this higher culture, and says in reply to his question: "Now it must be admitted that a college can do harm and that culture may be a bad thing. Not a true college or a noble culture, mind you. But it has become an axiom among philosophers...
...excellence. The other patterns the freedom of the German universities (which do not correspond to our colleges), would treat the student as a man responsible only to himself, permits him to be present or absent at his choice, and otherwise regards him as a free and independent American citizen. The one argues that the student must be trained to enter the world through close supervision and with immediate motives in view; the other believes that he must learn before he enters the world that he must depend on himself. The tendency of profesionalized teachers is to follow the first system...
...hold over the people. It is useless to discover how this state of things has been brought about; there have been various causes, and the blame does not rest altogether on the shoulders of any one class. But what is our concern and the concern of every patriotic citizen of the United States is to find a remedy, and the only remedy in our power is to see that every honest and intelligent vote possible is cast. Harvard men were not found wanting in patriotism in the war for the Union, and they should not be backward now, when...