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President Elliot considers the changes entirely 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...
...your poor human judgment and asks if you will receive Him. Each one must make a deliberate judgment. Perhaps, however, you will say that the question is not settled in this way. Your judgment is the result of the many little judgments that you have previously made. The boy who yielded to the influence of evil companions, disobeying the promptings of conscience, took the road to the crucifixion of Christ...
...Boston. If a supply of the fatal alcoholic poison must be kept somewhere, as many people assure us, let if be in miserable out-of-the-way houses on the side streets, not in attractive palaces, on the highway. Then I can feel that when I send my boy on an errand he will not be tempted to stop at every corner to see what the brilliant lights and crowds of a saloon mean. On the question of suppressing the open bar all parties should unite...
...respected for just what he is, and no money curries favor here. Indeed, the boys who have moderate means make up the college standard. You remember that you spoke of Phillips Brooks, D. D., when I left you last summer. He said for a young man of character it was just the place, but if a boy were weak, he would then advise him to go elsewhere...
...Harry's Career at Yale," to which the publishers of Outing call particular attention, is a serial story depicting the amenities and asperities of a boy who goes through Yale College. The first installment appears in this number...