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Yale will study Moral Philosophy from a French work that is being translated expressly for Yale students...
...Columbia the trustees have laid down for young women a course of studies which is almost identical with that pursued by the undergraduates. The course comprises Latin, Greek, modern languages, political science, history, English literature, moral and intellectual philosophy, geology and botany...
...instructor in German,-with the vigorous help in French which leaves the professor in that department more time for instruction in Italian and Spanish, we are better equipped than ever. Let me say here that I rejoice at this especially. Apart, of course, from the deepening of religious and moral feelings, I know of nothing more to be desired for our country than a broader and deeper cultivation of the literature and science of the world at large. We are developing too much in obedience to a single element of progress-to what I have in another place called "mercantilism...
...recent review of C. F Thwing's book on "American colleges" says: In his chapters on Morals and Religion the author draws conclusions very unfavorable to city colleges compared with those located in country towns. He thinks that the proximity of drinking-shops and disreputable houses, as well as the fact that city colleges draw their students mainly from residents of cities, who are familiar with vice, tends to lower the moral tone of the students; and he adduces many facts in proof of his position. There is undoubtedly much truth in this view. Large colleges certainly have a large...
...about the College. His own ambition for Yale was, that the scientists should not crowd out the classics, nor the classics crowd out the scientists, but that young men attending the college should be given a free choice of courses. He thought that in the last ten years the moral improvement of the students had been great. Twenty-five years ago the average Yale student was a longhaired individual, wrapped in a blanket-shawl. Today he looked like a gentlemen, whether he acted like one or not. This change, he believed, was due to athletics...