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...before the Yale alumni at New York, on the "Idea of the American College," contains many valuable suggestions. President Gilman said: "The American college is an admirable place for the training of men. There are now three important factors at work in our colleges - increase of wealth, growth of modern sciences and the progress of religious freedom." This growth of modern science is shown, for instance, at Harvard by the fact that the needs of the department of Physics have increased so much as to be the cause of the erection of a new Physical Laboratory...
Politics should enter more largely into the American college curriculum. It is plain that in this way alone can the standard of politics in this country be raised. The tendency of modern life is every day running towards specialization, and this tendency will undoubtedly soon be a factor in political life. In England and Germany men fit themselves specially for politics, just as others do for medicine and law. Many schools have been founded specially to prepare for the civil service examinations. The introduction of civil service reform in this country will soon necessitate such special preparation here. The universities...
...illustrate the follies of "scientific" warfare. Prof. Child instances the fact that to build and equip a modern ironclad costs about as much as it would to establish such a university as Harvard...
...mentioning subjects already given out. These are as follows. 1, Allusions to the Sicilian expedition in the "Birds" of Aristophanes; 2, Personal references in same; 3, Compare metres of same with those of English verse as to appropriateness to subject, etc.; 4, Compare the "Birds" with some familiar modern burlesque; 5, The character of Teirisias in the "Oedipus" and in the "Bacchae;" 6, Connection between the choral odes of the "Bacchae" of Euripides and the development of the plot; 7, Compare the impiety and madness of Ajax and of Pentheus. The subjects, it will be seen, have a considerable range...
...tomorrow evening, are especially intended to attract the attention of students and others to a well-known but frequently neglected class of philosophic problems, problems that ought to be neither feared nor despised, but to be honestly, reverently and fairly discussed. The lectures will first make suggestions about certain modern ethical doctrines in their bearing upon religion, and will state the case of one doctrine in particular; then the inquiry will be taken up: What in the nature of things can be assumed to correspond to our moral needs, to offer them encouragement and religious support? Two or three theories...