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...evils of what may be regarded as the new departure in our higher seats of learning. When indiscriminate choices are prompted, as in not a few cases they are, by the love of ease, or by some freak of fancy, it is easy to say what will be the effect on the intellectual life and growth of the student who makes such choices. But, where an institution is situated, as Brown University is, in the midst of a mechanical, manufacturing and commercial community, where there are scores of young men to whom a mere literary training is a matter...
...seem disposed to do, the long-established methods of our American Colleges for foreign university methods - as, for example, to make all college studies elective - does not presuppose and require an extent and degree of previous training not yet possible to be attained in our preparatory schools; whether its effect with a large class of students would not be, in fact already is, to give to their education a degree of extension quite out of proportion to its intention - an effect was very reverse of what the method is claimed to produce; and whether the expenditures on the part...
...feel that he should have entered the other. Therefore he has only a half interest in his work, and in a short time this half interest dwindles to no interest at all. In addition to a talk on choosing a profession, a few words could be added, with good effect; as to what were the best special schools in the country; how they were managed; and what a man could expect to get from them. If President Eliot can spare the time for such a lecture to the senior class he may be sure that every word will be appreciated...
...extent consummated by the establishment of the conference committees. That this organization has accomplished something for the interests of the students might be shown by several instances, notably in matters connected with the ball nine, in changing the time of the senior elective examinations, and in undoubtedly' producing an effect on the minds of the faculty committees when the subject of annuals, that great bugbear of Williams, was under discussion. But even if this organization had exerted no influence, even if its sphere of action were smaller than at present, it is still an excellent institution, inasmuch...
...ticket. In quick succession Messrs. F. S. Goodwin, Boston Latin School, L. H. Morgan, St. Mark's, and G. T. Keyes, Nichols' Private School, were elected to the captaincies of the eleven, nine, and crew. The meeting now declared itself adjourned, and proceed to carry the adjournment into effect by making its exit per fenestras, though a considerable number availed itself of the door in a more dignified retreat...