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...President Eliot was an enthusiastic promoter of most of changes which the Association finally voted to suggest. The general sentiment of the convention was that a great deal of time was wasted in the grammar schools over subjects of a more elementary nature, and that the taking up of certain other subjects was put off too long. As a result of the suggestions, then, if they are followed, the time devoted to some of the very elementary studies will be cut down, and other studies be introduced earlier in the course, when the young mind is as ready to grasp...
...Doubts about University Extension," must send a chill down the backs of the many warm supporters of that new system of education. Professor Palmer's "doubts" arise in the attempt to answer the question - Are the aims of university extension practicable? On this point, he says: "We cannot with certainity say that they are not, but it is here that doubts arise, - doubts of three sorts: those which suspect a fundamental difference in the two countries [England and America] which try the experiment; those which are incredulous about the permanent response which our people will make to the education offered...
...also have their place in the life of the college and deserve recognition as a distinct feature of the University. The object of these clubs differs largely from that of the more purely social organizations. Their work to a great extent supplements the work of the college, giving a certain interest to study not always to be found in ordinary college routine, and encouraging a desire for special research. In a sociable way the members of these organizations meet and teach each other much that they would not learn from long study under one professor. The different interests which each...
Botanical Club. Papers by W. F. Ganong on "Flora of New Brunswick"; L. N. Johnson on "Adaptation of Fresh Water Algae to life in Salt Water"; H. M. Richards on "Recent Fungal Literature"; A Nelson on "Certain Features of Tropical Vegetation." Botanical Museum, Room...
...views, the different kinds of waterfalls classified according to a physical basis. The first case is where a stream comes to a cliff in its natural course and plunges over; second, where a stream falls over a bluff and gradually cuts its way through a layer of earth in certain places and thus causes a water fall. Every water power in New England is of the last class. This is the kind of knowledge that a teacher needs before he studies how to teach his subject. He should have a solid foundation and should not stop with his text-book...