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...progress of the discussion, inasmuch as Yale has always been on the conservative side in this question, and has been regarded as the leader in the so-called old school of education. This term does not imply that the course of study here is not in accordance with modern ideas. On the contrary, Yale has alway been ready to introduce new methods and new ideas, when their value has been proved by experience, but she has never been willing to go to such an extreme of literality as Harvard. To all educated men therefore, and especially to college students, this...
...know whether many among you are acquainted with the fact that Cola di Rienzo, the Roman tribune of the fourteenth century, is the real founder of the modern archaeological school, and that to him must be attributed the important share of praise and glory, as regards the renaissance of classical studies, which has been almost exclusively bestowed upon Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petraca. Archaeology is founded on an absolute critic inquiry, on the comparison of antique monuments and with written and engraved documents. Archaeology is a science which, differing from others, begins to repay at once the zeal...
...made. We fear that worn-out shells and the opportunity of receiving "odds" will prove inducement enough to some young men to don the blue, but we sincerely trust that if unbecoming proselyting is to be done, it may be done by no more questionable means than by that modern blade of Mohammed, - the blade...
...following the coming of Winthrop, the two great English Universities sent into this wilderness fully a hundred of their best men, to strengthen the purpose and tone the spirit of the new settlement. It is not too much to say that in the history of colonization, ancient or modern, never before and never again has learning ever entered so deeply into the foundations of a people; nor is it too much to say that never in New England have learned men been so large a proportion of her population as in those formative years of this portion of the American...
...nineteenth century, and hereafter prosperity reigns supreme. Carl Frederick of Baden, the restorer of the university, goes by amid huzzas from a joyful people and the peals of music. A grand jubilee car with two maidens in white, representing the two genuises of the Schola Ruperto Carola, gay modern banners, modern dresses and corps of modern students - and the vision is gone, and we are standing in the Heidelberg of to-day, cheering with the excited populace. The procession has taken a half hour to pass and is considerably over a mile long. The horses have been especially noteworthy...