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...advisable. He thinks that routine work is too characteristic of the present grammar-school system due to the prescribed courses almost entirely, rather than to any fault of the teachers. The prescriptions of the course prevent a bright boy from advancing faster than any other. He may of course attain a higher rank but he must stay in the same division with the dull boy. In consequence under this compulsory system the dull boy lowers the age of matriculation of the whole class. These new changes will reward the work of all with due promotion and the brighter boys will...
...England Magazine for November, the account of "The Home and Haunts of Lowell" by Frank B. Sanborn. Mr. Sanborn was for many years an intimate friend of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Lowell, and he possesses a knowledge of the men which those who simply read their books can never attain. Although within the last two months a number of articles about Lowell have appeared, none of them went safely into an account of Lowell's student and home life as does Mr. Sanborn's. He draws a vivid sketch of the intellectual and social life of Cambridge, when the class...
...sermon was an exposition of how hard and persistently people work to attain low ends and to what an extreme they carry worldly lives; and ended with an exhortation to extend those energies in a worthier and higher cause. The story of the unjust steward was cited as a proof of how far worldliness may be carried when resolved to attain its end, and the history of the years of laborious and painstaking work of the Eastern dancing girls was given as an example of how hard people do strive for success in the lower grades of life. Then another...
...essential value in music. We conclude on the contrary that the aesthetic worth of what may be called the acoustic content of music is in no wise inferior to that of its poetic expression. Significance can give no higher beauty to a composition than that to which it can attain as empty sound...
...union has for its ultimate object the realization of a true university settlement modeled after Toynbee Hall in London, or the Rivington Street settlement in New York. But in order to accomplish this result or to attain any permanent success it must have the hearty and enthusiastic support of the University. It needs money, and still more it needs men. Already the undertaking has grown too large to be carried on by those at present actively interested. The amount of time required of each worker is not large. If a number of men can give a single hour a week...