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This is an experiment, and present arrangements and its future scope will depend largely on the demand for it. The members of the faculty are ready to receive applications for the course and it is very much desired that all men in the university who think of taking the course next year should consult within the week with either Professor Shaler or Dr. Sargent about the matter, so that some idea may be formed of the probable size of the classes, and that final arrangements may be made for them. So far, some half dozen men have signified their intention...
...that there would be four stories, of very different lengths, and on very different subjects, but all alike in that their plot and the method followed in working them out, would be very dramatic in all their essential - that is, that the four authors of these four stories would depend, each in his own way, on the vividness with which he could narrate a combination of incident which seemed to him to have some meaning, - to throw some light on the problem of life, and then would leave the readers of their stories each to find the meaning or read...
...impossibility of securing a stable body of teachers there seems to be no such doubt in Professor Palmer's mind, or rather the doubt seems to amount to a certainity. In England there is a surplus of unemployed scholars who can undertake the work, while here we must depend on college instructors, whose time is already largely filled. "This feature of the American system, * * * if persisted in, must ultimately destroy the extension scheme itself," for college instructors cannot, with justice to their work, engage in regular outside teaching. The extension movement here therefor, must content itself with a less ambitious...
...except where "special allowance is made for students whose homes are far from Cambridge." It must be obvious to every thinking man that while the Faculty rightfully lays stress upon this disciplinary rule, upon the observance of which the very existence of many of the courses depend, - its action is characterized by all due leniency to Western and Southern men, to whom the addition two or three days at the holidays of often means the ability to pass Christmas day at home...
...might be imagined, demanding good judgement of the requirements of schools in all parts of the country, and power to show them their need of the particular books recommended. In the advertising branches there is opportunity for the display of the greatest ingenuity; the life of a book may depend on the skill with which it is brought before the public; and, in general, the competition among different firms compels advertising to be novel and brilliant, to be eminently successful. Other departments of publishing also which afford good opportunities, are illustrating, management of agents' work, and subscription editions...