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...Public Instruction, Dr. Von Muhler, granted to subjects of Prussia who had completed the full course of study in a Realschule of the first rank, the right of matriculation in the Philosophical Faculty of any Prussian University for the purpose of studying Mathematics, the Physical and Natural Sciences, or Modern Foreign Languages. By this removal of restrictions which heretofore had practically barred the way to University studies for those who had not received their preparatory training at a Gyninasium, a new set of requisitions for admission was recognized, and a new element was introduced into the Universities. The Prussian Realschule...
...years of experiment the question was brought to the attention of the faculty of Berlin and the result of their investigations is embodied in the address of Prof. Hoffman in the following statement "that all efforts to find a substitute for the Classical Languages, whether in Mathematics, in the Modern Languages, or in the Natural Sciences, have been hitherto unsuccessful; that, after long and vain search, we must always come back finally to the result of centuries of experience, that the surest instrument that can be used in training the mind of youth is given us in the study...
...Columbia the trustees have laid down for young women a course of studies which is almost identical with that pursued by the undergraduates. The course comprises Latin, Greek, modern languages, political science, history, English literature, moral and intellectual philosophy, geology and botany...
JANUARY 20. SUNDAY.Appleton Chapel. Rev. Henry W. Foote, of Boston, 7.30 P. M. "Modern Luxury...
President Porter, of Yale says that "the rush and hurry of our modern activity needs the infusion of a calmer spirit and of steadier thoughts. Its rash and eager generalizations and its exaggerated statements need strong and steady thinkers who were trained in the school of severe definitions and sharp conceptions and steady and clear-eyed good sense. The extravagant oratory, the sensational declamation, the encumbered poetry, the transcendental philosophy, the romantic fiction, the agnostic atheism, the pessimistic dilettanteism, to which modern speculation, and modern science and modern poetry tend, need now and then a "season of calm weather," such...