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...others. Professors James and Wendell discussed as length the proposed reduction of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Harvard College. Professor James showed that men begin their professional training earlier throughout the Continent than in America. In England men graduate at about the same age as in America. There, however, most members of the more highly educated classes are rich, here they are poor. In England, consequently, an aristocratic system of education is possible; university education in America, on the other hand should aim above all to be democratic...
...large audience. The subject was Kant. The many-sidedness of Kant's thought, the lecturer said, has in the first place made the difficulty of completely understanding him so enormous that the reading of the "Critique of Pure Reason" has become a sort of liberal profession in Germany. The age in which Kant lived was ripe for the "Critique" In twenty-five years it so thoroughly won over to metaphysics a nation previously little given to philosophy that Heine said; "God has given France the land, England the sea, but to Germany He has given the dominion...
...penetrate beyond the husks to the kernel of faith. Men have discovered that religion is not primarily a matter of opinion, but a matter of life. The Bible has been called a biography, but it is always life speaking to life. The personalities of the Bible speak from age to age. The greatest word of the Bible is "Because I live, ye shall live also." It is not thought to thought, opinion to opinion, but life that brings religion and keeps it new forever...
Having demonstrated the advantages of advanced graduate work, Professor Royce proceeds to a more elaborate discussion of the proposed reduction to three years. He explains the working of the proposed system which seems to be rendered necessary in view of the relatively advanced age which statistics show to be the average one in each freshman class. He argues the need of a better distinction than is possible at Harvard at present between graduate and undergraduate work. As the present elective system has now brought together in the same lecture room undergraduates of all classes it is impossible to take such...
Harvard undergraduates are fully qualified and entitled to speak in a matter which concerns them so deeply and they feel that four years are none too long for their course of study. A lowering of the age at which professional men can begin work is indeed necessary. But to bring about such a result Harvard college has no right to cheapen its diplomas. The result can be accomplished either by the united influence of the large colleges upon the preparatory schools or, as proposed by the method of anticipating studies. Let the attendance at preparatory schools be steady in boyhood...