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Professor Shaler delivered an intensely interesting lecture last evening to a full audience. So distinct, he said, are the fields of work of the theologian and the naturalist, that he had with difficulty found a topic of common interest-the Evolution of Altruism. Sympathy, the basis of altruism, seems a very natural thing, yet it is hard to explain. The lecturer asked his hearers to assume that man is descended from the lower animals in his body, and in some at least of his mental faculties. He then traced the gradations of altruistic qualities (those which are not based...
Thus there seem to be two distinct advantages which would recommend the formation of state clubs to college students; -the opportunity of meeting one another socially, and the opportunity of increasing at the same time the functions of their respective universities...
...Harvard is that of the establishment of a system of examination boards-indeed the question of the entire reform of the present examination system. There is no doubt that with the development of the university system a change, which shall introduce some method of examination by examiners totally distinct from those actually engaged in the work of instruction, is bound to come about. The work of instruction and the work of examination should be separated by a line distinctly drawn; in themselves they have no connection. This matter indeed is directly connected with the establishment of a permanent body...
...rush" was over, but it is still undecided whether the freshwomen are to wear back hair. It is true that the back hair of their champion was seized; but, on the other hand, they claim that they captured twenty-four distinct sets of back hair from their opponents, and, hence, that the victory was really with the freshwomen. The question is a new one in educational annals, and unless the proposal already made to submit it for decision to the presidents of Yale, Harvard, and Columbia is accepted, it may remain unsettled, and a fruitful cause of perpetual discussion among...
...suggestion, however, of a differentiation of studies as a part of the scheme of general education is open to the objection that the meaning of a college degree will not be as distinct and specific when such a scheme has been put into operation as it has been heretofore. We all know what we mean by an educated man, though we may not be able to put our meaning into a formula. We do not mean the possession of a technical knowledge, nor a mastery of the routine of any calling by which money may be earned...