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...McCosh said : "My first position is the certainty of evolution. Evolution is but the coming of one thing out of another. No scientific man under thirty years of age in any country denies it, to my knowledge. To oppose it is to injure young men. I am at the head of a college where to declare against it would perplex my best students. They would ask me which to give up, science or the Bible. There is a general progression in nature. The theory that the world was once a vapor from which the earth evolved is not consistent with...
...triangular in shape and resembles many chairs found in the pleasant cottages of Herefordshire at the beginning of the last century. The wooden knobs which ornament the back were turned by President Holyoke himself. Now it is only used on Commencement Day, when the President as the head of the whole university, sits in it. During the remainder of the year it passes a dignified and quiet existence in the President's office at U. 5, in company with several other antiquities. Previous to its stay in the University it was kept for many years in Gore Hall where...
...Royal Frederick-William University in Berlin the National University, and such encouragements have been offered to professors of other universities that the faculty of the Berlin university is probably the most representative of the educational system of Germany. Germany, of late years, has gradually assumed a position at the head of the world in all matters of education, and today her university and school system are looked upon as the best result of the experience and labor of the world's educators. So that testimony from Germany on any question of education is of especial value and interest...
...principle also. Moreover, coaching by a competent person does not mean merely better work of the same kind. It means a different kind of work, attention to details, a gradual improvement in the game, elimination of objectionable features. A score of instances could be mentioned in which superior head work, thoughtful training, such as a student cannot be expected to give has helped the Yale team. We all know how much weaker individually, and yet how much stronger collectively, Yale's nine was than ours last year. But there is no use multiplying instances. We have better foot-ball, base...
Early yesterday morning an unusual excitement was noticeable in the vicinity of the Park and Fifth Avenue Hotels in New York, where excited groups of students of Harvard and Yale respectively had gathered around the head-guarters of their representative in the approaching foot-ball match. Many were anxious Wednesday night lest the weather on the following day should be unfavorable, but Thursday dawned bright and clear promising a perfect day for the great game. A few hours rest after the long and tiresome ride on Wednesday had put our men in good spirits again, and they retired in excellent...