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...notice at present is the courses required for Freshman consumption. Yale, with the entering class of "Ac" and "Sheff" united into one group under one dean, has found "inspirational courses" very successful. that means a division into small groups under the best professors in order that the ex-school boy may appreciate in his first year the opportunities offered by the University...
...needed to understand the music. In the case of art it is easy to spend an afternoon in the Fogg Museum and become acquainted with a number of masterpieces, for instance, the prints by Durer, Holbein, or Rembrandt. The work of Gainsborough who painted the now famous "Blue Boy" can be seen in his protrait of Count Rumford, recently bequeathed to the University. Anyone who wishes to know the works of art of some of these great men can do so in a much shorter time than it is possible to become acquainted with an equal number of the masterpieces...
...same paper we find Mr. Gavit's first article on Harvard; wherein he indicates the present problem of the University is to take "the unit of education, the Boy," and "make out of him all that it is possible to make." Purpose such as this implies that the students must not be classified in any such manner as to label them in fact or in effect, the "eager" and the "unwilling"; but the suggestion that all be treated as of the "eager" class is, or ought to be, a fundamental principle of the college. Cortainly that great freedom given...
...very well. Quite so, Professor. Take it to him. He sits before you--the Boy, the Parent of the very near future. There is your...
...sifted, weighed and from it are deduced generalizations to fit a pattern rather than an individual. Those of us who are occupied in the pursuit of parchment letters to add to our names are all lumped together--by a writer in the "Transcript" as "that painful figure--the college boy." The same philosopher concludes his dissertation by advising us that the sooner we accept with "strong humility" Thackeray's dictum that at twenty-one a boy is an ass; the sooner we can resume our high ambition of becoming great and useful men and "shaking a loose and happy...