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...late years to an extent which causes alarm in some quarters. The number of students has gone up from 15, 113 in the summer of 1872 to 23,834 in the summer of 1882. This increase amounts to no less than 57.6 per cent. That the demand of modern life for men of education has increased to such an extent as this is regarded as more than doubtful by many authorities. An official warning has just been issued against students taking up the law as a profession, as its ranks are already hopelessly overcrowded...
...Peabody, on "Negative Preaching." He said that the tendency of the present day toward negative preaching was to be deprecated, inasmuch as it lacks that element of positiveness which is requisite for the thorough grasping and understanding of the principles and ideas which go to make up our modern Christianity. He commented upon the fact that the tendency of people generally, who are perplexed by doubts as to their religious belief, is to embrace some well defined creed, without, perhaps, a sufficient knowledge of their own minds. The lecture was extremely interesting, and enlisted the closest attention of all present...
JUNIOR THEMES.Theme IV. will be due Feb. 20. Subjects: 1. Early American Financeering. Sketch of Robert Morris. 2. An Account of the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. 3. Longfellow's Place in English Literature. 4. Leon Gambetta. 5. The Adventures of a Trade Dollar. 6. Greek Plays and Modern Audiences. 7. The Ethical Standards of Under-graduates...
...Gorgias; and in Latin on Plautus' Rudens, Terence's Andria and one book of Cicero's De Natura Deorum. Here again the requirements appear rather low. The requirements for honors of both classes in the other subjects are similar to those in the subjects already mentioned. In the modern languages special authors are to be prepared for examination, and the history of the country is also included. There seems to be no distinction, such as "highest" and "ordinary" honors, as at Harvard...
...examinations. Still the requisitions at Cornell appear to be much inferior to those at Harvard, particularly from the fact that the announcement seems to imply that a man can get honors in Greek without attaining them in Latin, and in French without any special knowledge of German or other modern languages...