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...narrow policy of its faculty so frequently tends to diminish. As to the argument itself, against which the Review so eloquently musters the forces of its indignation, we have still to reiterate our belief in its essential truth, although we are bound to admit that its statement is too broad to be applied, in a literal interpretation, to the case of Oberlin. And, as for the other sins the Review lays at our door-sectional prejudice, lack of candidness, disingenuousness, and what not-we utterly repudiate any intent of harboring such qualities. We have the highest appreciation for Western energy...
...that nature ever issued. Some of the typographical errors were very amusing, especially those in the Athletic Records, where that most stupid of mortals, a printer's devil, has made a Hercules, Jr., throw a hammer "36 sec. ; " a bicycle ride two miles in " 13 ft., " and the running broad jump, a marvel...
Still, as I have said, the failure is but partial. I believe that a system of self-government by the students can be formed which will be popular, effective and broad enough in its scope to escape the odium which has become attached to our form...
...Frederick J. De Peyster, in a speech before the trustees of Columbia College, spoke as follows of the proposed school at Athens: "Dr. W. W. Goodwin of Harvard University, whom I consider the first Hellenic scholar in America, will assume the direction of the school. Under one of the broad rules which govern his college, professors are allowed, at proper periods, a two-years' vacation, and during their absence one-half of their salary is continued. The Archaeological Institute has raised the necessary sum to make up the amount required by Dr. Goodwin, and the school will therefore be inaugurated...
...college should aim to give a general preparatory culture to boys and youths, graduating them at the age of from eighteen to twenty. "It should be an institution for training the mind and disciplining the character, and should not aim to be an institution of learning, in the broad sense of the term. The teacher's personal interest in the student should not be diverted by ambition for renown as a scholar, nor the efficiency of his teaching encumbered by large numbers of students." This is eminently reasonable as a theory, and is really a statement of the swiftly-approaching...