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...Broad education" and "specialism" are both good in their respective ways: without the former, the world would be a chaotic mass of egotism; without the latter, progress would be dead. Young men coming to Harvard should be allowed to choose for themselves whether to continue their general education, or to launch at once into some one branch of study. The ranking system should place no premium on either plan; an unbiased choice should be allowed, free from all unworthy motives...
...department today, there is still another course which has been suggested for the department and which many would be glad to see taught next year, if possible. That is a course supplementary to History 2, though of a somewhat different character, involving not only constitutional but also narrative and general history, especially of recent times. This course should take up in turn historical topics suggested by recent events such as the present invasion of Egypt, the Tonquin War, or in another field historical questions suggested by the present political condition of Russia, the Irish land agitation, or Bismarck's imperial...
Some trouble has been caused by the failure of members to ask for ordered goods when paying for something which they had ordered. If books or other articles be sold to them from the general stock while their ordered goods are reserved for them till the time of sale is past, the society loses...
Princeton seems to be particularly favored in the matter of general lectures for the students. Some of the best known literary men in the country have been selected to speak there. On Thursday last, Mr. Charles Dudley Warner delivered the first of a series of four lectures on "Literature and Life." This was received with much good will by a crowded audience in the Old Chapel. The second was on Saturday, and the other two are this week. The whole course is illustrated by selections from various sources. It is understood that the college is indebted to Professors Sloane...
...fruit. That this broad policy should win over a large school, formerly averse to the simple mention of the word Harvard, and induce the instructors to change to more liberal methods of instruction augurs well for the popular hold which the Harvard elective system is acquiring among students in general...