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...regard to many matters, and while each is left free to teach from his own standpoint, yet, so far as the department of the school is concerned, they are, and through all the changes that have taken place have been, in substantial accord. They all have the same ideal of what the school should be, and work and realize this each by his own methods. * * Taken altogether, the school was never better furnished for its work, never exerted so large an influence, and never produced better fruit than at the present time...
Another prominent feature of the intellectual training which the college affords is made possible by the elective system. This feature consists in the habit of personal investigation of special subjects. It might, perhaps, be called the university, as distinguished from the college, ideal. In many departments each student is asked to investigate certain authorities, and to make a report upon the results of his voyage of discovery. In physics a student may be instructed to study certain peculiar phenomena. In American history he may be permitted to devote his attention for a time to one series of events. Subjects, rather...
What a contrast there is between the ordinary hum-drum town and one that can boast of some institution of learning, be it ever so small. The power of education seems to throw a gloss over all, and the life seems more quiet, re-fined and ideal. The presence of the students in the streets in England, attired in their ridiculously short gowns, in Germany with parti-colored caps, gives an idea of gaiety and life to the throng of busy passers-by. All is University, for the very townsfolk can do nothing but talk of this new rule, that...
...matter, that if only a man like Col. Bancroft could be found to take charge of our field athletics, the faculty would be only too glad to appoint such a man. Thus, a year ago, Col. Bancroft was held up to us by the Athletic Committee as almost an ideal instructor in athletics; no charge of "professionalism" was then made against him, hut just the contrary; and further, the thought of objecting to the coach of the crew on the ground of too great expense, seems never to have entered the minds of the Committee a year ago. These facts...
...Republic held no public office at the time of his nomination, a fact which ranks James G. Blaine with "the great of old." Finally let us lay our leaf of laurel on the shrine of him who for twenty years as statesman, scholar, and public man, has been the ideal and the impersonation of the genius of our institutions...