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...fair representative of the sentiment of the best minds among the younger part of the community. Few men with minds open to ideas have escaped the influence of Matthew Arnold's thought ; thought so purely typical of the characteristic aspirations, beliefs, and the-ories of the present era of modern life. Few, especially, are the undergraduates who have not directly or indirectly felt his influence. Many indeed can count no single personality which has effected them so strongly as Mr. Arnold's. His influence is formative and stimulating, and therefore is rightly strongest with college...
...meeting of college presidents was held in Boston last week. The conference was strictly private and was devoted entirely to informal discussions on educational subjects. Among other topics that of the study of modern languages in colleges was considered, every participant freely expressing his views. President Porter, of Yale, was not present at any of the conference...
...annual convention of New England colleges was held on Nov. 14 and 15 at Boston University. Ten colleges, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, Williams, Amherst, Brown, Tufts, Dartmouth, Trinity and Boston University, were respectively represented by their Presidents and one Professor. The subject for discussion this year was "The Place of Modern Languages in the College Curriculum...
...Honors will hereafter be given in Modern Literature...
...without examinations." At some of those named above, examiners-dis-tinguished fellows of the colleges-go down annually from Oxford and Cambridge to the schools, and examine, chiefly by papers,-as the Harvard examiners now do at Chicago, Philadelphia, and other centres-in English classics, mathematics, natural sciences and modern languages-and those who pass that examination with credit are awarded scholarships as exhibitions at certain colleges...