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...Harvard numbered among his friends John Cotton and Thomas Hooker, fellows and teachers in Emmanuel College, England, also Sims, who lived latterly in Charlestown. There is no portrait or description of John Harvard known to be in existence, but the present statue, the exquisite model in bronze, is an ideal image. But let it be understood that the statue, only by influencing the mind, eye and thoughts serves to call up an ideal representation of the man. It is indeed true that an ideal model is a fit one to take the place of the unattainable statue or portrait...
...them the "Minute Man" at Concord, Mass., and a bust of Emerson. In his pretty little studio at Concord the work of modeling has been done and the casting has just been completed at the works of Bounard at New York. The face of the statute is necessarily an ideal one as no representation of Harvard is extant. All that is known of him, on which to work, are the facts that he was young, studious and a dissenting minister...
Some hundred years ago, when the college was yet young, the requisition for entrance was "to read and converse in easy Greek and Latin," and although candidates for admission did not come up to the present ideal in classical knowledge, still it must be confessed that they made the crude attempt of a system soon to become universal. Until quite recently the method pursued in the study of languages has been a peculiar one, not to put it too strongly, a method employing the dictionary largely in translating the author's ancient and modern, and altogether ignoring the sound...
...view of the demands of the modern spirit upon our colleges, so well expressed by President Eliot in this article, it is pleasant to reflect that Harvard falls short of the requirements of the new ideal perhaps as little as any college in America, with possibly one exception, and that in the department of historical study so notably patronized by President Eliot, her position is that of a leader. Already the fame of the college in attracting the more serious students of the higher branches has been largely increased by the widespread reputation of its history department. With eighteen regular...
...Progress," Loring's "A Confederate Soldier in Egypt," Sherwood's "Manners and Social Usages." Politics"-An introduction to the study of Comparative Constitutional Law, by Crane and Moses, Hallowell's "James and Lucretia Mott," Robert's "Government Revenue," Carnegie's "Round the World," Bunce's "My House"-an Ideal, Howell's "Three Villages," "Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse," etc., Biographical Sketch and Letters, June Magazines...