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...where all books necessary for the study of French could be obtained. Unless those volumes which have been taken are restored, it will be necessary to curtail the liberties now enjoyed by persons consulting the reference books, by placing the whole library of the French department under lock and key. Let us hope therefore, that a knowledge of the hardships and inconvenience in which others are placed, if not a sense of right and wrong, will induce the person who is at present in possession of the books to return them immediately...
...President of Harvard College is ever in the van of progress in educational matters, and in his address, read last February before the members of the Johns Hopkins University, now printed in the Century, he strikes the key-note of the "new education" which is beginning to push itself into notice. The gist of the whole matter seems to be simply this: Not to love Latin and Greek the less, but the new subjects the more. This view is one which Harvard has taken the lead in promulgating and in putting into practical effect, and it is one that...
...college training in this country should be adapted to American habits of life. I think that a higher view should be taken of the question, and that college training should not be adapted to fit a man for any particular vocation. Its object is to give to man the key to that higher life of the human mind which is common to all ages and all nations. [Geo. Wm. Curtis...
...key to education must be in the line of altruism, teaching men to go outside and stay outside themselves. It is not safe to start the intellectual life in the study of physical science; education should begin with the humanities...
...always, we learn, been the practice of members of "Skull and Bones" and "Scroll and Key"-the two rival societies aimed at in the resolution-to abstain from the slightest mention of the societies and their merits and doings in the presence of outsiders. Even the humming of one of the society songs by a non-society man will invariably cause them to leave the room where the supposed affront occurs. It was expected that the moment the matter was brought up at this meeting the "Bones" and "Key" men would rise from their seats and leave the hall. This...