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...look upon your deeds," but none the less do bright eyes now glance approvingly upon the hard-run race, the graceful leap, the well-thrown ball, and the prize will be the more valued when applause from fair hands mingles with the cheers that hail the victors in these modern Olympian games...
...Modern Languages," no material changes are made in the electives. Course I. in English is improved, and the electives in Early Italian and Spanish Literature are given by Professor Lowell. Professor Bocher continues his course in the Comparative Philology of the Romance Languages; but this is intended more particularly as a postgraduate study...
...History, Course VI. of 1874-75, "Modern History" (seventeenth century and first half of the eighteenth) is withdrawn until 1876-77; the other courses are like those of the present year. The want of a new elective in History is noticed elsewhere. In Mathematics there are ten courses offered, with some changes in the more advanced. A new elective is given in Physics; Natural History remains unaltered; while the courses in Chemistry, being as nearly perfect as possible, have undergone no particular alteration. Music has an additional elective, and Fine Arts an advanced course on the "Rise and Fall...
...truth; that every capability of real, worthy enthusiasm should have full development; and that no text-books should be employed which unnecessarily lessen that enthusiasm, whether by the overshadowing vastness of the dry psychological facts there accumulated, or by their adherence to a phraseology that to our modern ears seems stilted and pedantic...
...cosmic philosophy is primarily a search after truth. Unlike the founder of modern philosophy, it accepts some of the philosophy of the past; and also, unlike him, it does not believe it has left no truth to be discovered. It is not a full-grown, but a growing philosophy. It is therefore, under a competent teacher, peculiarly fitted to be an object of study. In studying most subjects the student uses the method of "instruction"; in studying cosmic philosophy he must also use the method of "discovery." In studying the ordinary philosophy the student must be content with doing what...