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...teachers. Its object is to promote the development of the study of Education and Teaching at Harvard University, to promote the professional advancement of the members of the Association, and especially to promote the free interchange of thought upon education questions among the teachers whom the University has sent forth...
...speaking of racing, a writer in Outing says "at present the national tendency toward legislation in racing, recalls the old fable of the mountain that brought forth a mouse, but it is hard to say what a month or even a week may show. The passage of some really satisfactory measure would be of the greatest service, not only to the actual states that would possess them, but as setting an example to the entire country. The plague - for it amounts to nothing less - of unrestricted racing must be checked...
...refusal to play Harvard or the University of Pennsylvania except on a strictly undergraduate basis, Princeton has set forth clearly her position in regard to collegiate athletics. By her action she indirectly states that the odds of a university team against a college team are too heavy for her to bear, or, at the least, that she does not care to compete with any but strictly college teams. Princeton has thus lowered her athletics from a university to a college standard. If she persists in her present attitude, she must expect that, in rating her, it will be according...
...second paper was by Superintendent Maxwell of Brooklyn, who spoke of "The Supervision of City Schools." He set forth the duties of the principal and of the superintendent. The principal, be said, must be able to judge the teachers under him and also the pupils. He ought to know all the pupils so well that he could advise their parents whether or not, their children should be sent to higher schools. Furthermore, he should be in touch with all teachers and make it a special point to lead them to think for themselves and to study the books...
...letters of his sufficiently show the warm interest he had in the matter. It is especially appropriate that active work in such a memorial should begin with his classmates and their generous subscription of ten thousand dollars and promise of further support, should be a good example to call forth further subscriptions from every man who wishes to honor the memory of Phillips Brooks, and have a share in the completion of a project which he so greatly favored and worked for. It is sincerely to be hoped that the necessary sum will be raised by Commencement time...