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Harvard is not alone a New England university, it is an American university. When Dean Pound asks funds from the people for the development of the Law School he is expressing the real as well as the ideal Harvard. The university has grown with the nation, is vital because of the nation, and remains so only as long as the educational needs of the nation are best served. That a continuance of already proven policy will best serve those needs is obvious. But certain obstacles, formidable, definite, present themselves...
...Some boys at puberty give out a milky exudation from the nipples. At least one grown man is recorded to have suckled a child. In eunuchs the enlarged breasts are composed mainly of fat. Infants frequently exude a milky liquid...
...artist-father's house on grass-grown Market Street (Newark) was "the resort of notabilities." Thither came Henry Ward Beecher, General McClellan, Horace Greeley, Edwin Booth, Frank Leslie. Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun had used to come. Buffalo Bill called next door. Thomas Edison had a shop around the corner...
...birth to the tutorial system the University has made one more contribution to the needs of contemporary living the present duty of the University is to make its elder brothers, lecture and class, as useful and interesting as the tutorial system. If this is not done completely, the infant grown may live on alone with his relations under the sod. Half a league onward--the University has gone that far. But to he absolutely successful the whole league must be courageously and adequately covered...
President Frank's analysis comes naturally from the new administrator of one of those immense educational factories which have grown up on the federal grants in public land states. It is here that curricula have been littered with every branch of information known to man. The liberal college has held to the doctrine that not matter but method counts, that the study of renaissance architecture or romantic literature, the classics or a science, may sharpen wits and awaken wisdom more effectively than technical training in the tools of the trade itself. Even at Harvard the elective system broke down, without...