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President Charles C. Beaman presided, and opened the intellectual proceedings in a witty speech, the beginning of which was part Greek, part several more modern languages. This and the printing of the menu in Greek characters was, he explained, in pursuance of an outcome of the new heresy against ancient Greek-that all the speeches should be in that language. Mr. Beaman compared the attendance of New-Yorkers at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, showing that there are 71 in the first, 54 in the second, and 32 in the third, while in the Harvard freshman class today there are more...
...Modern methods in the study of History, by H. B. Adams...
...full college course occupies three years, and except in especial cases, no young lady is admitted under eighteen years of age. Candidates for admission are required to pass an entrance examination and furnish a certificate of character. The curriculum embraces: modern languages, classics, mathematics, natural science, moral science, history, and vocal music. The professors of Cambridge have given their services free, and the readings, entertainment's, etc., of the university, with its musical society, are open to students...
...primo" was not together. On the whole, though the symphony is a favorite one, it contains probably some of Beethoven's most commonplace thoughts. The next selection, Entr'acte, from Reinecke's Manfred, was admirably in the spirit of the whole programme. While thoroughly German in character, of the modern school, it was beautiful and impressive, without being difficult to grasp. The orchestra played it in a masterly manner, attaining a wonderfully soft pianissimo at the close...
...elective system by placing a premium upon a superficial education, such as is to be obtained in the prescribed course which most American colleges require. Under the reform which is suggested, the specialist is triumphed over by the superficialist, which is exactly contrary to the tendency of modern progress." May I ask, through your columns, by whom and when this final decision that a man who is not a specialist must be a "superficialist," was arrived...