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...school system might from circumstances prove inefficient, it assumes an enlarged significance when applied to a collegiate education. Many college courses have no end in view beyond charging the mind of the student with a mass of facts more or less interesting and useful, but undeniably lacking in the element of brain culture. The proper building of a brain is still a subject of discussion. But that the system of education in vogue among the colleges throughout the land is highly defective, is proved by the success of the reforms inaugurated by Harvard, which declare as their basis the determination...
...profit to himself and to give it to others; the double motive is the only complete motive. Beyond doubt in this fact we find the strongest argument for the establishment of what we may call intellectual societies, societies devoted to study and mutual improvement. Such societies cast aside the element of selfishness, and recognize and advance the element of generosity, of intellectual democracy, and the men who faithfully support them are helping themselves, and are helping also to improve and elevate the intellectual life of this college. Only the movements by associations, by clubs and societies, can really make...
...education. But it is not until very recently that the comparatively new science of political economy has received from educators the attention which it deserves. It is due largely to the energy of one of our own instructors that the study of economics has come into prominence as an element in the panoply of a student. During the past two years Professor Laughlin has delivered lectures and written magazine articles on this subject, and the interest which they excited warranted him to publish the substance of his thought in permanent form, and the result is a little book, entitled...
...this connection we would say a word in regard to a communication which found place in our issue of yesterday. The article referred to seemed to intimate that the non-society element in the class would be overshadowed by the influence of the three great senior societies. The impression thus conveyed is, in a degree, erroneous. It cannot be denied that the members of a society will vote for a candidate who is a member of their own fraternity in preferance to another with whom they are less well acquainted. Yet to our knowledge there has been no society caucus...
...rushing from the empty rooms of other departments of study, the sophomore of today is only by cunning and force enabled to wedge himself into a window in History 30. The explanation of this condition of affairs is very evident. The last campaign explains it. The mugwump element in education is abroad, and it means to stay abroad until Greek 99 has learned its place and Latin 40 will acknowledge its existence. The cry for utility is slowly enlarging into something more than the call of an infant "crying for light." And it purposes to have the light...