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...Professor Alexander .V G. Allen, of the Episcopal Theological Seminary here in Cambridge, addressed a large number of students in Sever 11 last evening on "General Reading as an Element in Education." In the older days, education was broad and general; now everyone and everything tends towards specialism. General culture must be the result of self imposed labours if it is to be had at all and certainly no one can be considered well educated unless he possess a general knowledge of literature. General reading leads to individuality and original work; it ministers more directly to personality. The late Thomas...
...average student, the college conference tonight will probably be the most interesting of the year. Rev. Professor Alexander V. G. Allen is to speak on "General Reading as an Element in Education," and both the subject and the lecturer deserve a large audience. Too many men, in going through college, specialize and neglect their general reading of good literature - and it is on the importance of this general reading that Professor Allen will lay stress...
College Conference. General Reading as an Element in Education. Rev. Professor A. V. G. Allen. Sever...
College Conference. General Reading as an Element in Education. Rev. Professor A. V. G. Allen. Sever...
...music which prevailed not long ago, and which, while being rather amusing for a time, hardly satisfied the desires of those who wished to hear the glee clubs sing music worth singing, - this nonsense music has been given up for a style which, while still keeping an amusing element, contains much more musical worth. The kind of music which the college man writes today is by no means ideal; it might well be more serious and ambitious without losing, any of its distinctively college character, but it is far more satisfactory than the music produced a few years...