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...pleased to announce that next year a new German course will be opened to seniors. Hitherto, there have been very few desirable courses in this useful language, and in general it has met with neither the success nor popularity that has attended the French courses, which are, perhaps, the best-conducted courses in modern languages that the curriculum possesses. We hope, however, that the new course will be made attractive, and, what is of equal importance, valuable, which latter can be done only by placing the course in charge of a competent instructor...
...came to college at an age at which they are now not out of the high school; they seem superfluous when the age of a graduating class averages, as with us last year, nearly twenty-four years. In dispensing with such incentives we are but following the plan of German Universities, and apparently neither they nor we have any reason to complain of the effect upon scholarship...
...much to be hoped that the university will be able to secure a professor of German before the beginning of the next academic year. The college has excellent instructors in that department at present, but it is becoming very evident that a head to the department should be appointed, and that its courses and methods of instruction should be thoroughly reorganized and arranged anew. Of course time is required for the selection of a competent incumbent for the position, but it must be remembered that the interests of the present suffer with the continuance of the delay...
Startling revelations have been made concerning the sending of German convicts to America, by the Berlingler Tagblatt...
...others trace from it all the prevalent evils that result from overwork and cramming, while some, with careful conservatism, agree that it is a good which, like all other goods, possesses some grain of evil that cannot be avoided. In one exchange the methods of assigning scholarships at German, English and American schools are thoroughly discussed, and the relative results derived are thoughtfully compared by the writer who endeavors to show - but we must confess with little attention to the facts he himself presents - that the practice of giving comparative per cents. is an absolute necessity in American schools...