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...early part of the entire course was given up to a variety of required studies for the purpose of general culture, the latter part of the curriculum opened the way to specialization by offering elective courses in which the student might work out his natural bent. In point of age the average American student in a first-class college is further advanced at the end of his sophomore year than the average German student when he enters the University from the gymnasium. The actual facts in the American college situations were clearly seen at Columbia College and in the University...
...Bailey, '88, opened for the negative, declaring that George's assumption that this is an age of progress and poverty is wrong. It is an age of progress from poverty...
...McCosh says that boys are ready for college, with spirited teachers, at the age...
...libraries, apparatus, etc., are thronged with students. But there is something better yet at Harvard. It takes more than money to make a college-that is, a college of the future. Wisdom cannot be bought. Experience costs time and tears. Sectarian colleges, and probably all others, have their squabbling age, an age of hair-pulling and scratching, an age of petty jealousies, rivalries and quarrels. If any man doubts that, let him come here and read the story of Harvard's childhood. It took two hundred years to outgrow it. It makes a curious record, this story of the Puritan...
...Bulletin Elm," at Princeton, has grown weak from old age and is shortly to be cut down...