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...well-equipped as it is - if any other American institution could approach it in the range and volume of its annual literary and scientific publications." The excess of scientific publications over literary would be much reduced if pages instead of titles were counted; for in science a larger number of brief monographs on limited topics can be found than there is any equivalent for in literature...
...secure it in its permanent usefulness the school must now be intrusted to the care of a larger public. It is proposed to raise a general fund of a hundred thousand dollars for the development and endowment of the school and in particular to employ a director of the highest fitness and ability. Our readers need no introduction to the archaeologist, Charles Waldstein, a native of New York, but now connected with the University of Cambridge, England, and with the Fitzwilliam Museum. The committee in charge of the school wishes to redeem the character of America, and to secure...
...university society, whose aim shall be to bring together more intimately, professor and student. I observed a comment on this same suggestion in one of the Boston papers of to-day, which seems to touch the matter closely. Now that we are a full-fledged university with that larger and broader freedom which attends such station, it is wise to merit this big title by a character equally as big. Do the professors of Harvard wish to become intimate with its students, are they anxious to offer some more personal assistance than mere lecture room intercourse affords? Mr. Wendell says...
...that character should be. Yale tries to give men to the world. Harvard tries to give an institution to men to give them a place where they can develop themselves and work out their own character. Harvard's principle recognizes more fully the differences in men. It has far larger possibilities and is based on a great confidence in human nature...
...fewer it strikes us that more real good might have been accomplished. As it is, within a few miles of the place in which the new Clark University is to be founded, stand two of the oldest and largest universities in the country; and within a surrounding territory not larger than some single western states which has no good university, are found Harvard, Yale, Williams Dartmouth, Brown, Bowdoin and Colby. We cannot have too many endowments of this generous kind for educational purposes in our young country; but with all respect to the good intentions of the donor, we cannot...