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...exact sciences differ so much from actual work in the outside world that training in the former seems to make a man useless for the latter, for exact science calls for consideration of every detail, while in life we have as a rule no further calculations than rough approximations of probabilities. This fact tends to make the man trained in science hesitate when any question comes up, weighing so long the advantages and disadvantages of any plan of action that he cannot bring himself to act in any definite way. What then are the advantages of a scientific training, what...
...prospectus of elective courses offered to the junior and senior classes during the college year, 1894-5, at Yale appeared yesterday. Its contents and arrangement differ materially from those of former years. In future the junior classes will select not less than fifteen and not more than eighteen hours of elective work per week. In the year following they will select for their senior studies a number of hours per week which, in addition to those chosen and passed without conditions at the end of junior year, will bring the total number up to thirty hours. The class...
...said that modern crities are altogether too apt to overlook the difficulties which the early painters had to encounter when they first started the Renaissance movement. People find fault with their pictures because they differ from modern paintings, but they do these old masters injustice to compare them with modern artists. Even if they are not understood now-a-days the Italians were skilful painters for the times in which they lived; in fact, one of the chief causes for this lack of appreciation is that the old masters worked under the inspiration of religion, while nature was a comparatively...
...little manual entitled "Parliamentary Tactics, or Rules for Debate," by H. W. Hoot, has just appeared. It is arranged in a way specially adapted for use by "the Chair" from such standard authorities as Roberts, Cushing, Matthias, Jefferson and Crocker. Where the authorities differ, the view most conformable to the latest and most thoroughly established usages of parliamentary law has been accepted...
...result of the common bond of religious interests among a considerable portion of the students. We welcome it as we would welcome any religious organization. Is opportunities and its line of work is much the same as those of other societies of its kind. Its discouragements and obstacles will differ but little from theirs. If anything, they will be even greater because of the prejudice which so many bear to ward this particular denomination. And yet this very difficulty opens at once a field of work where much good may be done. Here at Harvard, above all other places, there...