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...colleges owe to the old university for the bold spirit of experiment that has led to the recognition of the difference in value between the traditional, customary, and conventional methods, inherited from previous generations, and the new, fresh, original methods, that contribute their share to the advance of the age. Any thing, he said, rather than stagnation in educational matters. Certainly there is no stagnation at Harvard, and the many changes of the last fifteen years seem only to prepare the way for more...
...same class of students undoubtedly goes to the college, attractive in so many ways, for its lines of study have been extended to include nearly everything at first found only in the scientific school, in accordance with what is vaguely termed the 'spirit of the age;' but it should be recognized that this spirit has been strongly guided by just such institutions as the Lawrence school, whose graduates include a large number of prominent and influential men. If success is to be measured by the share taken in the labor of bringing neglected studies into their proper position, the liberality...
...Comment on the fact that a turkey is a native of America, and was so named because its wattle was of the color so long known as Turkey red. What does this show as to the age of turkeys? What is the age of this turkey...
...will be seen on perusal, "The Prayer of the Presidents being Washington's New-Year Aspiration," etc., is an unsetarian amplification of the Lord's Prayer, and peculiarly of practical use to every earnest young man and woman in this age and country. The Critic says...
...drawbacks are no more, and the helps no less in this age than in any other; the grace of God has never been kinder and stronger than it is now. It is a good time to live, to have noblest and purest ideals, to follow Jesus Christ, the leader of this age and all ages. "Now is the accepted time, and behold, now is the day of salvation...