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...business enterprises of undergraduates have ever yet made much of a success financially. Cases that seem to be exceptions to this statement have succeeded always for some exceptional reason; either because of extraordinary enterprise on the part of their projectors, or for outside support, or because of the friendly interest of associates, a few have prospered, and although it must be confessed that this lamentable fact is often due to the inertness and indifference of those who should be chiefly interested and would be most benefitted by student enterprises, yet it is unfair to lay the entire blame...
...serious faults may be found in the system of instruction in French at Harvard. In the first instance, the student is obliged to commit to memory an excessive amount of selections that are neither profitable nor interesting. In every French course we find some such task set, the merit of which is extremely dubious. The reason given is that by these means a knowledge of the language may be ingrained in the memory and the mind thus made more retentive of the forms of good style. But if this is the end desired, why not choose the selections with...
...instructors wish to excite an increased interest in this regard among their students, let them make a decided change in the character of the selections given. Let these selections represent more truly the best thought and highest flights in French literature by giving us passages from those leading poets and dramatists who have given the world of French belles-lettres its greatest glory and finest expression. This done, the student may then feel that what he learns is of some worth and use to him, instead of dry matter which he hastens to forget after examination. Attention may also...
...without having that knowledge afterwards clinched by the painful process of examination. This result can only come if students exhibit in ways more or less direct the positive and active effects of these lectures on their own knowledge and thoughts. For the present, at least, these lectures form an interesting relief from the irksome grind of formal courses. As the Chronicle says on this subject, "New lines of thought are followed; old ones are made more attractive, and a new spirit is imparted both to scholar and professor." A new subject will be treated this year...
...Great interest was taken in the Ryan-Sullivan prize-fight by the students of Princeton College. The boys are naturally anxious to know who will be president of that institution next year. - [Chicago Tribune...