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...great cause, whose efforts must be supported both on and off the field in every possible way. A cloud of witnesses around the grounds, holding his every action in full survey, seems to be regarded as a legitimate division of the army, which has its own necessary function to perform and the athlete in the arena is applauded to the fatal end, like Tennyson's warrior...
...four-year programs affording thorough professional training in the several branches of applied science, including architecture and landscape architecture; the Graduate School established for the administration of the higher degrees in arts and sciences, and recognition given to the importance of the fostering of higher studies as the essential function of a university...
...laboratory instruction, necessitating large increase in teaching staff (see below); requirements for admission raised from a standard below that of admission to College to the requirement of a bachelor's degree in arts or science; medical research established as an important part of the school's work, and its function taught as an adjunct of medical practice; enlarged school plant with five buildings now in process of erection, and endowment largely increased...
...exercises of a new institution connected with our University--the Germanic Museum. The beginnings of our enterprise date back some ten years. The project of a Germanic Museum had its inception in the growing conviction on the part of the instructors in the department of German, that their true function was not merely to teach the German language, or even German literature, but to give our students a true conception of what Germany stands for in modern civilization, what her ideals have been, what she has contributed to the world's best intellectual possessions. For this purpose books alone...
...there is now no provision. Three meetings in the interest of the plan have already been held in Boston and the vicinity at which much interest and general approval were manifested. A school of this kind which could instruct college men in the meaning of education as an important function of society on a much more comprehensive scale than is at present possible, is expected to be a very powerful influence throughout the country...