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...medicine is but widening its usefulness when it founds a school to drill men for public life. But though such work could best be carried on at Washington it does not at present seem likely that it will be. Accordingly, we hope to see Harvard enlarge her influence, and broaden her university character by starting a good school of Political Science, just as she has established a Law School...
...desires of those poor unfortunates who are deprived of a share in the family turkey. With the price of board at $4.00, it should become the policy of future directors to vary the prescribed courses at Memorial by inserting a Thanksgiving day elective, a course that will broaden and stimulate the inner man. We heartily recommend this course for all who spend the day in Cambridge, and trust that it will meet with their approval...
...means, let us broaden our minds by reading what others have written; but, do not bind us down to such a Procrustes' bed as this criticism is likely to prove...
...preparatory schools should understand each other before they can be able to secure co-operation. There are many difficulties in the path of the preparatory school teacher. He is seldom willing to confine himself exclusively to the drudgery and drill work which the college expects. He is desirous to broaden the understanding of his pupil by cultivating his literary tastes, and sometimes is tempted to neglect the drill work in his efforts to open a wider mental horison for his pupil. Thus, there grows up a want of harmony between the college professor and the fitting school instructor which...
...liberal education is the sole purpose of the present lengthened discussion. Every advance in science and philology, every newly arising social or political requirement, every increase in commercial and industrial extension, in short, every new demand upon the energy and thought of educated men will only increase and broaden this idea of education. It is compulsory on us, the educated men of the succeeding generation, to prepare ourselves for life not by a training course of study invented to meet the requirements of the eleventh or the seventeenth century, but of the twentieth...