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...attention when 19 years of age, while tramping through the Maine woods. The lumbermen refused to allow any of their number to take any liquor of any kind with them into the woods. It was a measure of self preservation. In the log drives the most perfect control of every faculty was necessary, and the lumbermen would not permit themselves to be at the mercy of any one man who might wish to indulge himself. He was obliged to sacrifice his own pleasure to the safety of the majority. All employers believe in shutting off their workmen from drinking. They...
...educational system of France is entirely under the control of the general government. National support and minute classification are the chief characteristics of the system. The teachers are trained in government colleges and are paid fixed salaries. The schools are divided into three grades - primary, intermediate and collegiate. The baccalaureate degree is usually reached at the age of eighteen, and then follows special instruction for any profession. The daily routine is prescribed by the government and the students are always under the supervision of the instructors. In Germany every child is compelled by law to be instructed by some...
...large and appreciative audience in Sever, last night, Dr. Royce gave the third of his series of lectures on the "Religious Aspect of Philosophy." This lecture considered especially the world outside of man. Science assumes that this world is a vast whole, under the control of physical forces; an immense succession of phenomena, every one of which could have been predicted from all eternity by a mind powerful enough to know and to use some exact universal formula. Has such a world any religious aspect? The answer suggested by science is often stated thus: The world shows us universal evolution...
...other colleges, should lead the thought of the country on all points and at all times. It is to Harvard men and Yale men the people should look with more respect when any great economic or social question is under discussion, and it should be their opinions which control the will of the people rather than the opinions of the so-called "self-made" men, - men who made a success in one direction - that of acquiring wealth - not by virtue of their ignorance, but in spite...
...cannot this system of lecturing be carried out in other subjects? All of us would enjoy this kind of instruction in French, German, Natural History, Fine Arts and other such important subjects. As we are denied the advantages of study in the Harvard Observatory, under the able men who control it, we would especially appreciate evening lectures, by which we might acquire some general knowledge of astronomy. Gentlemen from other colleges, who are considered authorities in their specialties, could be induced to come to Cambridge, and, in one or more lectures, give us the benefit of their scholarship. If such...