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...development of their mental power and ability for usefulness, but a certain number of marks, a high place in their class, some paltry distinction on graduating day. Pupils thus fail to perceive how utterly factitious and worthless these successes are a week after they will leave the school. The argument of the teacher is that the examination marks are a test of the pupil's proficiency. This is seldom correct. They are a test of his verbal memory and physical endurance. So wide is the range of study required now even in primary schools that nothing more can be done...
...there is any organization in college which deserves the support of the undergraduates it is the University crew. If success is any argument for support, the crew can certainly present that argument. Defeated in 1881 in a race where the honors were almost equally divided between victor and vanquished, and victorious last year in the fastest eight-oared race ever rowed by two crews in this country, it would naturally be supposed that the Harvard crew could not possibly lack support. In spite of our misfortunes of this year, we send to New London one of the finest crews Harvard...
...secure paying fellowships, avail themselves of all the advantages extended for our near neighbors and then, securing positions elsewhere, leave us. With forty-one professors and an income of $225,000, we should be educating a thousand instead of two hundred." All of which seems merely to neglect the argument that it is in this very opportunity for the highest training not obtainable elsewhere that the pre-eminent usefulness of such an endowment as that of Johns Hopkins consists...
...question has been decided, it may be expected that an attempt will be made to create sympathy for the governor as having been slighted, and it will be asserted that the college has set itself up above the wisdom of the people. It will be used as an argument to favor the governor's reelection and to injure the college. But we fancy that the governor's vote will not be increased nor the college hurt to any appreciable extent by the act of yesterday. Nobody ever supposed that the authorities of Harvard College regarded his excellency...
...majority of free traders, also '82 and '84. Harvard and Yale teach the free trade theory, while Princeton is just now in an unsettled state, a great contention going on as to which side she shall espouse. A well-known teacher and writer on the protective side of the argument has received a call there, but has declined. At Columbia, in the school of political science, all instruction given is of a free trade tendency, although it is thought that most of the students are mild protectionists. Amherst has an instructor of political economy in Prof. A. D. Morse...