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...Cooke, of Harvard, discusses "The Greek Question," maintaining the position that while the sciences are of the greatest importance, there is so much good in the classics that they should not be neglected. The editor also reviews President Porter's reply to Mr. Adams on the subject, quoting President Barnard, Professor Blackie and Dr. Farrar...
United States Senators Bayard and Morrill, Professor Goldwin Smith, Gov. Cleveland, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Andrew D. White, Rev. Joseph Pullman, Judge Thomas C. Manning, Bishop Ponick, Congressman John Goode, Charles Dudley Warner, Bishop Bowman, Rev. Robert Collyer, besides such orators as President Porter of Yale and President Barnard of Columbia, are among the college commencement orators of this year...
...where best can be gathered great minds. It is at London today that many of the greatest lectures are delivered, and not at the English universities." And, with this in view, President Porter points to the future of Columbia should she found an advanced school, for which President Barnard has already asked $4,000,000. "The great obstacle in the way of a university, in its truest sense," he continues, "in America, is the need of proper preliminary instruction. We may have all the departments, but, when entrance to these departments can be made from a mere high school education...
...meet with little approval save from the so-called religious press. The standpoint of the Nation and of other representative journals on the matter seems to be generally accepted as the more reasonable one. It cannot be doubted that the utterances of such men as President Eliot and President Barnard in favor of college athletics have carried great weight with the public mind. The almost universal readiness of college students themselves to quietly acquiesce in all reasonable restriction cannot but have had a most favorable effect. The danger of carrying the reaction to an extreme was of course...
...offers degrees to women in every course but medicine; the University of Cambridge in all courses. The Royal University of Ireland is open in all its branches to women students, and the institution and success of Girton College in England is well known. In addition to these facts, President Barnard of Columbia College says in his annual report, that no one can have failed to remark the growing interest in this subject in New York city during the past year. He thinks that Columbia College must soon admit women as students on an equal footing with men; that where...