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...Harvard Union is an old institution and one which deserves support from the college. It affords to men a chance to learn something of parliamentary law, to speak in public without embarrassment, and to learn to for emulate ideas with rapidity and precision. Its usefulness is manifest. We regret to learn, consequently, that the number of men from the lower classes who are accustomed to speak at the Union debates is not large, and that the interest taken by those who have spoken is not enthusiastic or persistent. This really is a great mistake. Men ought to make...
...their foreign rivals, and for this purpose they will have to renounce in part that training in Latin and Greek which former generations of Englishmen have received. The assertion is made more peremptorily, more impatiently than ever before. Let us give up the preposterous doctrine that Latin must be learned in order to learn French, and let us teach French in order to teach Latin. In so doing we do not sacrifice literature to mere business, for the modern languages have literatures as well as the ancient. There exists a French literature which comprises books, poetry, devotion, philosophy, science, history...
...with Mr. Balch in this matter, although we are as earnest as he is to advance the financial interests of the crew, for we have declared it our belief that mismanagement, if not extravagance. has been the rule for some time past. Last June the college was surprised to learn that the boat club was still in arrears when every one had been informed that the strenuous efforts made in the winter of '85-'86 had succeeded in wiping out the indebtedness which, something over $2000 in the fall of 1884, had been $1600 in October 1885. This surprise turned...
Through the courtesy of the gentlemen who got up the petition to Mr. James Russell Lowell, we have the privilege of printing his letter in reply. It is with deep regret that we learn of Mr. Lowell's determination to deny our earnest request. However we must be reconciled to it, the more readily, as no one can read this letter without feeling that Mr. Russell himself was deeply touched by this appeal from the students and that it was to his own regret that he found himself unable to comply with their request...
...opinions vary widely. Of one thing, however, we may be sure. If either element of education be neglected in the undergraduate course, it is unlikely that the deficiency will ever be made good. The years immediately following graduation are devoted, in the vast majority of instances, to learning a profession or a business; and these interests should be shared with no others except by way of recreation. If, therefore, a young man begins the work of his life while still deficient in mental training, his mind will be trained by that work only in those parts which are actively used...