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...Boston Post of yesterday published a very interesting and fairminded editorial on Harvard, her present success and her possibilities. It is always a distinct relief to find our university truthfully represented, and particularly to learn that the most sever critics of the century, the newspapers, are glad to give credit when and where it is due. It is undeniable that there are mistakes made among us-some of them sadly to be deplored-but we believe that the unprejudiced intelligent opinion of the country places our university where she belongs at the head of American educational institutions. The best...
...when he invaded India nearly two thousand years ago. On this occasion he sent a message to one of the native princes ordering him to come with gold and jewels or lose his head. The prince was unterrified and merely sent word to Alexander to come to him and learn wisdom. This prince was a follower of the Indian philosophers, who find in the beautiful recesses of the forest, charming with foliage and animal life, temples where they can retire and meditate...
Upanishad originally means "sessions" because the people were wont to sit in circles about the philosophers to learn of the doctrine. The ideas of the Upanishad were three in number. First, the existence of an eternal soul of souls; second, the invisible emanations from the soul, ill-understood, but known as mind; and lastly the method of arresting the migration of the mind and restoring it at length to the soul. This is a grander conception than any other ancient religion. These woodmen the Brahmins call God by three different names. "Sut," meaning being; "Chit," intelligence; "Anando," bliss...
HARVARD GRADUATE WANTED.- A young man who has a fancy to learn the newspaper business, who has a faculty for good writing, who is willing to work with a view to promotion, may hear of a situation in a well established journal, in which he will be rated according to his merits and where he will find congenial and not ardious work, if he addresses Post Office box 229, Boston. One who has been brought up in Boston preferred...
...subject. For course 3 will be too advanced for him, while if he joins course C during the latter half of his sophomore year, he will find that since courses B and C are given by different professors the subject is so differently treated that he has much to learn before being on a par with his classmates...