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...meeting of the freshman crew last night, the pledge of abstinence from certain indulgences was again signed, and a few remarks made by Capt. Borland relative to training, punctuality...
...every child is compelled by law to be instructed by some one appointed and certified by the government. A primary school is established in each parish, in which the instruction is of the most elementary character. Next comes the realschule for commercial, and the gymnasium for more classical education. Certain lines of employment are restricted to those who pass the final examinations in these schools. Probably the most perfect public educational system in the world is in Switzerland. A third of the whole taxation revenue is devoted to the schools, besides the fee paid for each child. There...
...religiously encouraging fact only in case it is an essential, not a purely accidental feature of realty. But the progress that science discovers in the world is a local and transient fact, occurring at a particular stage in the process of the cooling of the solar system certain, in so far as we can judge to end before long altogether. If it be replied that progress, ceasing here, may reach a higher stage in some other planet, or in some other solar or stellar system, the lecturer insisted that such ideas have at least no sure foundation in experience...
...life at Harvard. At first sight a Harvard student will indignantly exclaim that the question does not apply to Harvard; that we have plenty of men here who do lead and who do attract students by their reputation; who do inspire students with new motives and feelings. To a certain extent this is perfectly true. There are in Cambridge a number of men who exercise a powerful influence in the world of letters and of politics, by whose fame the name of the university is spread far and wide, and whose lectures and talks inspire all who hear them with...
During the last three years this carefully defined system of parties has given rise to some lively elections, in which much money and time were wasted. One election is said to have cost over two hundred dollars, and another, to my certain knowledge, cost over one hundred and twenty-five. The number of voters are usually large and the majorities small. One election started, after some pairing, at one hundred and eight to one hundred and eight and three scattering, and remained in that locality for nine hours, during which all manner of devices were resorted to by both sides...