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...passage in an article in the current Harper's Monthly written by Wong Chin Foo, the editor of the Chinese newspaper published in New York, gives a very shrewd comment upon the idea of education that prevails among Americans. "We have heard of young men in this country," says Mr. Foo, drily, "who have graduated in three or four years at most, and who were regarded as having finished their education, who in fact considered themselves educated to a degree of proficiency beyond which further study were superfluous. In China there is no fixed time for graduating, no limit...
...evils of speculation have been so often discussed as to need no further comment from us. It is for the interest not only of the graduating class, but also of the undergraduates, who will in their turn profit by the successful establishment of a good precedent, to make 83's class day as perfect as possible. We rely, therefore, on their hearty co-operation in our efforts to restrict tickets to seniors and their friends...
President Eliot in a recent lecture expresses the opinion that it would be a great improvement in the relation between minister and congregation, "if the minister were frankly allowed sometimes to comment upon a fresh book instead of preaching a sermon, sometimes to read other men's sermons instead of his own, and, in general, to direct his hearers to good reading, and bring them to know something of the minds and works of the leaders of the race, living and dead...
...establishing of a half-course in elocution shows that the faculty intend to give this subject an assured position among college studies. It has always been a cause of comment that so important a subject should be neglected so much. We hope that this new departure will lead to a more general interest in this subject...
...Oberlin Review publishes a very interesting letter from Cambridge in which the writer takes occasion to comment freely upon the present condition of things and recent changes at Harvard. The elective system is touched upon and receives guarded commendation...