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...College is not a university, and we do not want it one. We believe that one university in New England is enough, and there is, as James Russell Lowell said last fall, scarcely that. I do not think the so-called 'university' is practically such an institution. In my judgment, when young men choose their own branches, the gymnasium is the principal study...
...debate then became general, with an evident and delightful disregard of parliamentary rules, the chairman allowing his good nature to overrule his excellent judgment in many cases...
...ninety. There are, of course objections to the re-admittance of the Yale freshman crew to the annual contest with Columbia, but there are many reasons also why our freshmen should concur with the decision reached by Columbia. Whatever be the result of the deliberations of Monday night, that judgment must have good solid reasons behind it and must not be the outcome of prejudice or hasty and careless discussion. Our correspondent of to-day may be right in the main, but we thin that the position which he takes is narrow and somewhat superficial. Further comment on the subject...
...perfection of some systematic method of guiding and helping the students in their choice of studies in accordance with sound principles. The object, no doubt, should be to reach the choice in each case that the student himself would make, supposing him to be endowed with the knowledge and judgment of his own case which the elective system presupposes. - N. Y. Times...
...many who have not before understood them. Yet he can hardly be clearer than Emerson. He endeavors to emphasize, by means of more prolix English, that Emerson had us understand that in each man, and in himself alone, rests the influence that guides him; that each day is "the judgment day"; that in each one of us is Heaven and Hell, not in some distant and far off mysterious land. Such writings, as long as there is room for improvement in human nature, as long as crime and ignorance exist, cannot help doing good...