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...should there not be an American type? Harvard has certain functions to perform, and if they differ from those of a German university, Harvard ought not to be forced to conform to a German standard. Harvard aims to give her students culture in a broad sense, improve their moral character, and not merely offer them a chance to study as German universities do. As for our professors they must soon be given their true rank abroad as our university becomes better known and its organization better understood. That Harvard is rapidly securing recognition in the United States of her leadership...
...already provided for in a worldly way take up the study of medicine, because they appreciate the duty of usefulness and of an occupation, and those who are to find in it both an occupation and a livelihood. The usual incentives to both of these classes are the moral, the scientific and the economic, and to the second class in addition, the personally practical. To the man of means who is to control the administration of property, and to the philanthropist, clerical or other, the study of medicine and of the humanity to which it ministers, affords a solid basis...
...freshman year, study is not interfered with by athletics." They go even farther than this. They say "Fully alive to the evils which are connected with athletic affairs, the committee are of the opinion that intercollegiate contests stimulate athletics, stimulate general exercise, and thus favorably affect the health and moral tone of the university." With such evidence in favor of intercollegiate contests, it would seem to us exceedingly bad policy to kill them as President Eliot's rules inevitably would. For without minor games outside of the college the university teams could not obtain sufficient practice to be any match...
...recording the close of the long life of Francis Bowen, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus, the faculty of Harvard college desire also to record their sense of the large services rendered by him to the university and the country...
...North American Review for February has a varied and unusually attractive table of contents. Such extremes of moral outlook as Ouida's and Gail Hamilton's are here, although separated from each other by the chief bulk of the number. The Gladstone-Blaine controversy by Representative Mills, author of the Tariff Reduction bill is the leading article. It is in continuation of the Gladstone-Blaine duel in the January number, where those two advocates of opposing theories flourished their steels simultaneously and by mutual agreement. Mr. Mills tersely, and with sledge-hammer vigor, answers Mr. Blaine, arguing that protection leads...