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...association bearing the above name was recently organized in New York. The object of the association, as stated in the constitution, is the "advancement of the study of the Modern Languages, and their literatures." The officers of the association are a President, Secretary and Treasurer, and nine members, who together constitute the Executive Council, which has the general management of the association. Any person approved by the Executive Council may become a member of the association by the payment of three dollars...
From my seat in this college I am asked by experienced fathers, men of business, to try to determine whether a youth of eighteen shall be directed to take a course of ancient or modern languages. And I do think that I overstate the matter when I say that over sixty per cent. of the parents and nearly all of the students are utterly unable to determine for what profession the youth is best fitted...
...fact, in this direction Mr. Gericke does not seem to have at all accurately measured the wants and tastes of Cambridge audiences. It is really too bad that in such a short series we should not be permitted to hear the very best symphonies of Beethoven, and the more modern composers exclusively. With all due respect to the great name of Mozart, we say that his symphonies are not the material of which to form the basis of a concert for such an audience as Cambridge furnishes. We hope that in the single remaining concert of the course...
Full two hundred years ago the authorities were as much concerned for our welfare as to-day. With that same painstaking care which has led the modern athletic committee to investigate the minutest details of our out-of-door life, even to the making of long journeys at the expense of the college, the corporation of old inspected and regulated the life of the Puritan collegians of the 17th century. They even felt called upon to say exactly what they should eat, and what they should drink, as the records still plainly show. On June 23, 1692, the corporation held...
...dinner of the Brown University Alumni in New York, Friday night, Mr. George William Curtis spoke at length upon the progress of the modern improvements in the colleges...