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...other New England States are on the ground, so to speak, - in a position to keep in touch with the life of the University and follow every changing phase of its development. They have the leisure to devote to the consideration of educational questions, and are in direct contact with education in its most progressive type. They come from families which have been college-bred for generations and in which sound educational instincts and traditions are assured. For all these reasons they seem better fitted to grapple the problems of management and government constantly arising for the consideration...
...department of a great university can assume to teach the language without such courses. It is conversational courses which give practical value to instruction in the modern languages. The only way for the student to get into the real spirit of a modern language is by coming into actual contact with the living language itself. When he can make a language the means of oral communication of his own thought he begins to get at its real vitality. The German department is much behind the French department in this matter of practical courses. There is a demand for German courses...
...jury composed of the presidents of each class. The president maintains the right, however, to veto any action, if deemed advisable. This seems the only point on which objections are raised, but the prevailing spirit is that, by such a method, President Low will be brought into closer contact with the students and obtain a more correct idea of the sentiment of the college on all matters of student life...
...meeting tonight Mr. Edward Cummings, of the political economy department, will speak of the intensely interesting university extension work by which English university graduates are seeking to bring the advantages which they have themselves enjoyed within reach of the less fortunate masses. Mr. Cummings comes fresh from direct contact with this work and participation in it. He has studied the problem which they are endeavoring to solve in England and on the continent, and he has doubtless formed some interesting opinions on the methods which are being pursued. It is a subject in which every college man in America should...
...relations with Mr. Lowell in 1876 and 1877 when he had the fortune to be his pupil. He tells of his first impressions of Mr. Lowell, his peculiar manner of conducting his courses, the influence of his wonderful personality upon all the men with whom he came in contact, the charm of his evening receptions, - or rather "smoke-talks" at Elmwood, and the human friendliness which characterized all of his relations with undergraduates. The reminiscence has a simplicity about it which renders it thoroughly enjoyable...