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...architecture of the temple known as the horizontal curves. The cellar is raised two steps above the floor of the outer colonnade. Above the columns of the cellar the ordinary plain architrave is found, but rising above this is a continuous frieze, unbroken by metopes. This frieze is sculptured along its entire length...
...lecturer said that the most immediate missionary work demanded of the American people is the education of the Negro and Indian. This education must be accomplished along race lines, for the Negro must be made to assert himself before he can take the initial step in civilization. Race prejudice has been fruitful of much good. In that it has aroused the Negro to the necessity of self-assertion; and also because it has aroused the North to the work of education. Its effect is seen in the forty millions of dollars contributed by the North for this purpose since...
...breadth of view which the college gives, and help them to carry forward self-chosen lines of special study to the limits of the world's attained knowledge, and on into regions yet unexplored. Not the teaching how to walk, nor yet the easy and rapid journeying along the beaten paths of knowledge, but the exploration of fields remote from the main lines of ordinary travel and the surveying of new territory, is the function of the university...
...triple line of benches or chairs fastened firmly together were placed at a convenient distance from the door, the crowd would be stayed. These seats, which would be quickly filled, would make a barrier not easily to be pushed forward. There should be, of course, plenty of chairs along the sides of the Hall for the dancers and their chaperons...
...most importance to the college is the elaborate editorial filling several pages near the end of the number. Its aim is to stimulate men to become more than mere plodders or idlers along the intellectual highway; to show the vast superiority of those students who. putting aside the petty spirit which drives men to work for marks or examinations alone, adopt instead an ultimate idea of true and broad culture. An abuse too prevalent at Harvard-the nursing system of private tutors-is treated with the open and unqualified contempt it deserves. If the Monthly continues thus ably to discuss...