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...usefulness is so generally felt that it would not be permitted in any event to expire. The number of members needed to keep up the society is therefore pretty sure to join sooner or later. But many who mean to join have delayed in doing so through mere negligence or carelessness or forgetfulness. We hope that all former members will promptly renew their membership, in order that the number may be brought immediately to the working point. The men of the lower classes, who have several years of college life and of college expenses before them, have a particularly strong...
...however, forbear inclining to adopt the opinion in regard to it expressed by the New York Times. It is easy to brand opposition to so radical a reform as the extension of the system of specialization and differentiation in studies into the years of boyhood and earliest youth, as mere unthinking conservatism. President Eliot speaks, of course, with the highest authority; and yet the logical outcome of his views cannot but excite alarm. It is not easy to admit that the favorite modern principle of the division of labor can wisely be carried to this extent in the intellectual world...
...author describes the various special collections and concludes: "By a mere hasty visit to the exhibition-rooms no one will get an idea of the magnificence of the Museum of comparative zoology. Neither the building, nor the rooms inside, nor the exhibited objects, will make an especially imposing impression. But the strong point of this institution lies in the poculiar arrangement of the collection for the public, and in the strict separation of the large material for scientific investigations. By the constant development of science, by the improved accessibility of distant continents and islands, by the investigations of the depths...
...introduction a brief sketch was given of the recent tendency to what might generally be called a return to socialism in the political life of England, of some continental countries, and to a less degree, of our own country. Then it was pointed out that this tendency means not merely a political movement, but also to some extent the growth of a moral ideal which gives a stronger life to the movement. The moral ideal at the basis of socialism is the ideal of society as an organized whole, whose interests are not identical with the mere aggregate...
...through deferent stages of development; they started with the school boy's idea of playing "for the fun of the thing," in which stage little interest was taken, and soon received the instigation of competition which has been the making of them. Men will not train hard for the mere interest in the sport. There must be something to win, whether glory, or a medal, or a record, or all combined. And it is a mistake to suppose that it is only those that have been successful enough to enter the contest that have been benefited. The eight...