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...every three hundred inhabitants. At first view this seems very discouraging, but the situation has many compensations. So many are unwholly unfit or badly prepared that while they increase the miseries of mankind they add to the business and profits of those who are capable. The competitions of modern life have become so keen that there are no opportunities for the lame and lazy. The first must find their proper pursuits, and the second must work or go to the wall...
...faculty of Princeton have assigned commencement parts to the seniors of that college. Hugh T. Dobbins of California has been assigned the Latin salutatory; Edwin M. Hopkins of New York the English salutatory; Winthrop M. Daniels of Ohio, the valedictory. Honorary orations, on philosophy, political economy, modern languages, classics, the sciences and literature were assigned to nineteen other seniors...
Prof. E. J. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, speaking in a publication of the Philadelphia Social Science Association, of the expansion of college work from its ancient narrow field of mathematics and the classics to the broader field in which modern languages, history, political economy, philosophy and the sciences occupy an equal place with mathematics and classics, writes as follows...
...exterior of the library will be in essentially modern style. A dome will rise from the centre of the roof above the reading room. In accordance with the terms of the gift, Yale is bound to erect two other similar structures, and the college ought to well provided with libraries when all are completed. The three buildings will together have a capacity of nearly one million volumes...
French Readings. Modern Prose and Poetry. Instructors in the French Department. Sever...