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Without further comment we give the principal omissions. In the paragraph upon the civil service reform should stand the following: "The personal and political history of the candidates of the Republican party should cause them to be preferred on this issue to the candidates of the Democratic-Populist party; for of the two candidates nominated by the latter party, the one is a notorious spoilsman, and the other, being a civilian without military experience, accepted a colonelcy in time of war. That act speaks louder than orations...
...Another comment on the "new fashioned education" concerns what is expected of teachers. The value that is set on text-books induce teacher to give up a great part of their time to writing. Dean Briggs regards this value as overrated. The first duty of the teacher is to teach, writing should be a secondary affair, and not something on which to estimate an instructors worth, as the new education seems to do. By encouraging independent writing and research, it is possible that we have been unfitting the teachers, as teachers, for the student...
There has been much comment recently upon the value of the Harvard cheer. It appears that the trouble depends quite as much upon the spirit of the men who cheer as upon the character of the cheer itself...
...editorial is an appreciative comment on the rise and progress of "East and West," a monthly magazine of letters started last fall by two Columbia graduates, desirous of preserving the literary ideals obtained in their academic work. Such a project deserves the support as well as the sympathy of college...
...Libraries, which are connected with the Children's Aid Society, are distributed in batches of twenty books throughout the tenement districts, for the use of children. It is the duty of the man who undertakes this work to meet the children in his group once a week, and to comment on their reading. The work upon which the most emphasis is laid this year by the committee is connected with the Boys Club. A number of boys in Boston are formed into a club, and two or three men are put in charge of it for the purpose of affording...