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...future work along their respective lines. For example, just how much French and German is an equivalent for a certain amount of Greek is for the gentlemen of the faculties of our colleges - not academies - to decide. That the equation cannot be made with mathematical truth, is no argument against the approximation of the truth. Let us learn something in this matter of college degrees from our cousins across the water...
ENGLISH B.A lecture will be given in Sever 11 on Tuesday, February 22, at 2 o'clock. Subject: Exposition and Argument...
After Prof. Shaler's article, readers will probably linger the longest over Mr. Carpenter's clever dialogue on dilettanteism, which is really worthy of close reading. I quote the delightful little summing up of the argument: "The true dilettante is like Antaeus; the oftener you wrestle him out of his prepossessions, the more confirmed does he become in his dilettanteism. The only remedy for eclecticism is more eclecticism...
...fundamental in life, one great bond which overlooks distinctions of personality, and must therefore fall far short of attracting individual men with distinct and very often antagonistic tastes. Thus then, there will exist by the side of the club proposed all the social interests now existing. It requires no argument to show which of the two will fall. To attempt by the formation of a common relation, which can claim no higher legitimacy than the interest formed by mere residence at our university, to do away with distinctions brought here from life, must be futile. A club house will attract...
...suppose that the corporation were in college when few students used the library. Now the number has increased, as President Eliot says with pride in his report, to 90 per cent. Argument, therefore, from such precedent as the corporation can furnish is not satisfactory...