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...extract stands as a convincing argument for sceptics. Indeed, the question is hardly a debatable one at all. Reason does not need to be convinced; it is only popular prejudice that is to be refuted and driven from the field, and in this all fair statistics are a certain and invincible ally. It is the statement of Matthew Arnold, in his book on "Higher Schools in Germany," that it is coming to be a recognized fact in England that the educated business men of Germany are beating the English "countinghouse" merchants in the field of foreign trade, in spite...
...course of study in English 2 embraces a number of Shakespeare's plays. In recitation, a student reads aloud a certain amount which is then commented on by the instructor. In a course like this, when some of the finest dramatic and poetic passages in English literature are met with, we should naturally expect some attempt at elocution, or, at least, some interest in trying to read well. But the fact is that nowhere is heard such dismal exhibitions in elocution, and even the recurrence of the finest passages seems to fail to relieve the prosiness of delivery. It would...
...should be shown by college men of any sort. It is simply misrepresentation and misstatement to say of Harvard's system that "It dazzles us with the rich variety of electives, and, somehow, produces the impression that a student can take them all in the four years." It would certainly be a very foolish person who would receive such an idea. Further: "The idea that a certain amount of information and a certain familiarity with the lines of thought in each of the leading departments of human knowledge is essential to an education, is wholly ignored." We will venture...
...narrow and technical a scope to serve as an organ and exponent of Harvard before the public. For it is probably too much to ask that it assume anything like a literary character so as to appeal to general interests as the Register did to a certain extent...
...Harvard. Another plan suggested has been either that some member of the faculty deliver lectures to undergraduates upon the scheme and scope of the various courses, or that a descriptive circular be distributed to students, explaining the same things and giving tentative or provisional groupings of courses advised for certain supposed cases. The need for any of these plans in any case is not very serious, but still there are undoubtedly blunders made by many, if not by most of the men, in selecting their courses, which are afterwards regretted, and would have probably been prevented had they had access...