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President Robinson has announced as the subject of the prize essay to be competed for by members of the senior class "The Question of Personality and its Relation to Modern Thought." The income from a fund established by the class of 1873 is devoted to essays on philosophical and historical subjects to be given on alternate years. The prize is awarded on commencement...
Under the "reform" which is suggested, the specialist is triumphed over by the superficialist, which is exactly contrary to the tendency of modern progress...
...very auspicious circumstances. The college building, a large and commodious one, fronting on Somerset street, is a model of convenience, and, located as it is in the very heart of the city, the facilities offered the student in various directions are very great. It is equipped with the most modern appliances, and contains numerous rooms for recitation, lectures and study, a chapel, a large hall, and two gymnasia. The new students this fall numbered about fifty...
...Modern Greece is full of college graduates. The South American republics have plenty of Bachelors of Arts ready to make pronunciamentos. But these nations do not carry the school system out properly among the lower classes, and their universities are wedded to antiquated ideas. [Critic...
...writer in a recent Saturday Review on "Old Writers and Modern Readers," discourses at length in the indolence of modern readers and the dying out of the old classics in English literature in consequence of this indolence. In this connection the examination system of the present day comes up. "Among all the evils that follow in the train of a regular system of examinations," says the writer, "we know of none greater than a certain habit of indolence which it forms in the mind. It encourages a student-nay, even in the press of competition it almost forces...