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...argument of his address President Eliot thus concluded and summed up: "Finally, I step beyond the strict limits of my subject to urge the enlargement of the circle of liberal arts, on the ground that the interests of the higher education and of the institutions which supply that education demand it. Liberal education is not safe and strong in a country in which the great majority of the men who belong to the intellectual professions are not liberally educated. Now, that is just the case in this country. The great majority of the men who are engaged in the practice...
...anything; meaning thereby that it gave no sound instruction to a student who did not care to study." But one might ask what college ever did undertake to give "sound" instruction to such a student? Ex-Gov. Long's charge, we take it, is a variation on the old argument against the elective system...
...York Times indulges in some very cheap wit at the expense of those students who oppose the new athletic regulations. Its gibes do not at all affect the real argument, however. Indeed it seems impossible for the outside press, with rare exceptions, ever to fairly apprehend the true state of any matter of college administration or of student interest. "Let them remember," cries the Times to the students, "that as it is not every novel that a girl can safely put into the hands of her mother, so it is not every proposition that is an axiom to the experienced...
Here then is an opportunity for the Annex. We know of no stronger argument for co-education at Harvard than this. With athletics abolished or practically nullified the co-educational student will arise in her persuasive might and assert her claims as a collegiate guardian of good morals and good order. Such will be the Harvard of the future...
...question of an elevated railroad between Boston and Cambridge, which in now so widely attracting the public mind, is of the greatest importance to the university and Cambridge at large. The great argument in favor of the elevated road is that it would immensely reduce the amount of time now spent in travelling by the horse railways. Another consequence of the proposed change would be the necessary reduction of the present exorbitant rates demanded for rooms, and Harvard would cease to be, as it is, notorious for the high prices which its students are compelled to pay for rent...