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...closing my last article I quoted from the opinion of the faculty of the Berlin University, written in 1869, to the effect that the modern languages do not furnish a substitute for the ancient languages, "for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain facility of use, they cannot serve in equal manner as an instrument of culture." In this quotation, I said, the keynote of the whole question was struck. We must keep the ancient languages in our colleges as they furnish the only successful instrument of culture. I do not believe...
...Science Monthly, the most prominent organ of the opponents of classical culture, has devoted a very large proportion of its space to the subject, treating it however from a purely practical standpoint. These articles, of course, present the case from the most extreme "scientific" point of view and their effect is diminished by the fact that their writers have in most cases allowed their zeal to get the better of their discretion. At the risk of offering old news to our readers, we will give a short account of the history of the contest in Germany, clipping mainly from Prof...
...received their preparatory training in a Realschule should be admitted to the Universities, and, if they were admitted, under what restrictions this should be done. The answers, taken as a whole, were distinctly opposed to the Minister's implied proposal. The decree was nevertheless issued and went into immediate effect...
...seems very unjust toward the undergraduate classes for that department of the university to abstain from the races on the Charles until there is an accumulation of old and excellent oarsmen from which to form a crew. Moreover I can not help thinking that this will have a bad effect generally on the interest in rowing taken by undergraduates. The one cause of enthusiasm in a crew is its desire and chance of winning. Likewise the cause of a lack of enthusiasm and a consequent indifference among the members of a crew in the conviction that there is no chance...
...expressed himself in favor of such a move at present he did not wish to commit himself in favor of it. As to the first alternative, that seemed at present to be highly objectionable. The second was the measure which the faculty was striving to bring about. To effect this purpose a meeting of delegates from college faculties had recently been held in New York. A committee from that assembly would meet today when it was expected that, without doubt, all the colleges, with the possible exception of Yale, whose purpose no man could fathom, would unite in an agreement...