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...walk of life who, while having no desire for a college education, might wish to pursue some special study for their own improvement. The instruction is to be carried on by correspondence between the professors and the pupils. About twenty-five professors have already been engaged who receive a certain amount from each pupil according to the character of the study. The plan is certainly a novel one, and if successful will become an important factor in the educational development of the country...
...less in the same line, as it has always been taken for granted that New York would be the seat of the national university. The writer in the Cynic opposes the idea of a national university in very positive language. "Hundreds of colleges in America owe their origin to certain wants that a national university could not supply. The small colleges are usually less expensive than the large. Men whose means are limited discover in these institutions the facilities which are suited to their needs; while those who shun excitement find in the same places the calm and the quiet...
...matter of professional trainers is held in abeyance with a recommendation that the present trainer, J. C. Robinson, be retained. The base ball team will be allowed to play with professional clubs, the faculty reserving the right to preclude certain teams...
...times of religious or political excitement this supreme power has occasionally been unscrupulously exerted. But in most cases the states which were working out their own independence were favorably disposed toward the universities; they required intelligent officials, and the fame of their country's university conferred a certain luster upon the government. The ruling officials, were, moreover, for the most part students of the university; they remained attached to it. It is very remarkable how among wars and political changes in the states fighting with the decaying empire for the consolidation of their young sovereignties, while almost all other privileged...
...universities have retained the old conception of students as that of young men responsible to themselves, striving after science of their own free will, and to whom it is left to arrange their own plan of studies as they think best. If attendance on particular lectures was enjoined for certain callings-what are called "compulsory lectures"-these regulations were not made by the university, but by the state, which was afterwards to admit candidates to these callings-At the same time the students had, and still have, perfect freedom to migrate from one German university to another, from Dorpat...