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...following reasons: Because they checked what was threatening to become a dangerous evil, and thereby complied with the wish of many present, and the friends of the college in general, raised the tone of athletics, lessened their cost, and made college athletics what they really ought to be, a mere recreation and amusement. It may be well, perhaps, to state here that the change in the distance of the Harvard-Yale race was adopted on the recommendation of Prof. Agassiz, Dr. Sargent and Mr. Watson, and although the change may have its advantages, our faculty ought not to enforce...
...which a certain required amount of work is done." By this change from the original plan more than half of the so-called colleges of the State are barred from admittance to the new association. Thus the line is distinctly drawn between these better institutions and those that are mere high schools with long names. Even now the State contains seventeen institutions eligible to membership. It seems about time that some such move should be made. The country is overrun with little "colleges" and "universities" which are not known beyond a radius of ten miles. These give the degree...
...students of the college are instructed in a very extended and liberal course by a large faculty. The system followed is that of "election by terms." By this method the average student is less likely to become a mere literary grazer than he would be were he, at the commencement of his sophomore year, without any clear idea either of what he ought, or of what he would desire, to study, brought face to face with a broad and unrestricted course extending over three years, and told to pick and choose. The accommodations, however, for those desiring to pursue special...
...minutest details with an iron hand. The instructors' chairs are not indeed bought and sold or given to absolutely ignorant members of the military as they were in Nicholas I.'s time. But the professors, however learned or talented, under the restrictions of the Czar, are forced into mere educating machines to teach by rote the blessings of a military despotism. They have long since learned to hold their tongues not only upon the subject of the Government, but upon history, philosophy, economics, and nearly every other topic of the higher learning. But recently a Professor so bold...
...hold this opinion. By such lectures men would be enabled to find out for themselves what there is in such studies and would undoubtedly be much more inclined to take them. This is true in a different way of the Natural History courses. Some men think that they merely contribute to one's stock of facts, and not the widening of ideas which should be the true object of a university education. A few good lectures each year would go far towards dispelling such ideas. Again the classical department would undoubtedly be benefited by lectures on the ancient authors...