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...been most carefully considered; and this will require several months. It is well known that President Eliot is, as he has been in the past, strongly desirous of making the proposed change. Many of the faculty, however, feel that the interests of the college demand that Greek should maintain the high position it now occupies, but most of them do not, as many believe, underrate the value of the modern studies. Some of the textbooks used render a knowledge of German, as a tool in the study of Greek, absolutely necessary, and the advocates of Greek believe that an arrangement...
...presence of ladies, and parade the country round about so that women are afraid to be found abroad. This hostility seems to be especially directed against preachers, whom they compel to get off the walks and insult in every possible way. The Faculty seems to be unable to maintain order. Recently the Methodist Annual Conference was held in Statesville. One of the clergyman thus describes it : "On our way from Charlotte to States-ville, while the train waited at Davidson College station, there was a scene of rowdyism such as rarely has been my misfortune to witness. ON board were...
Professor Goodwin, in his paper on the "American Classical School at Athens," said that Harvard wants $70000 to maintain a permanent director...
...faithfully before the team is chosen and when there is free competition, than after they have secured their places. They treat it as an individual matter, where only their own interests are at stake. So long as they are able, even though in an indifferent condition of body, to maintain their superiority over rival aspirants, they are satisfied. With them it is a matter of comparison between their plaving and that of the substitutes who are ambitious to supersede them. Their maxim is, 'play better than the first substitute, and that is enough.' If that can be done without severe...
...From the time I left Oxford I have made it a religion so far as I could, never to let a day pass without reading some Latin and Greek, and I can tell you that so far as my course may be deemed a successful one, I deliberately assert, maintain and believe that what little screens has been granted to me in life has been materially aided by the constant study of the classics, which it has been my delight and privilege all my life to persevere in." [Lord Coleridge's address at Yale...