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...setting ever more strongly toward New York, and here, more than anywhere else, we shall, in the immediate future, need institutions affording opportunities for the highest culture. The right place for our American college is, as it has always been, the country, with its fresh air and healthful moral influences; but, as the poet says, 'a character is formed in the stream of the world.' It is in cities, in those centres of stirring life, that the character of men should be developed, their higher courses of study pursued; in other words, a city is the place for a university...
...forgotten, and their most valuable possession - i. e., time - to be unappreciated;" 3. "We live here in an undomestic and unsocial state." On the second head he says very finely: "This great purpose is study. Now this is much more difficult, and requires much more moral exertion to devote one's self to, as an object, than the more active duties of after life." And, on the third heading, he says forcibly: "Indeed, although youth is called the age of sentiment and enthusiasm, I know no less enthusiastic or sentimental place than college; no place where there is more shyness...
...publick common-place of its contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects assigned for the college forensick disputations;" solutions of problems in mathematicks; discussions in natural history; "compositions in the classical languages;" "essays of a moral and religious import;" "a part of every number shall be unalienably devoted with religious sacredness to original poetry;" and finally, "under a miscellaneous head anything which shall seem properly introduced into a literary journal." Taste and zeal truly robust! How the pallid young collegian of today shrinks aghast at such...
...largely attended by women students, notably the courses by Prof. Seeley in history, Dr. Foster in physiology, Mr. Balfour in comparative anatomy, Dr. Vines in botany, and Dr. Humphries in human anatomy. During the last eight years, thirty-six Newnham students have gone in for triposes, seven in moral science, eight in natural science, eleven in history, five in mathematics, four in classics. Of these nine came out in the first class, twenty in the second, ten in the third, and one was plucked...
...very glad to see such a society as the Total Abstinence Society go into operation. The plan proposed is an excellent one and should meet the hearty cooperation of all the students. It will tend to increase the general culture of Harvard; although much in advance in this moral culture of other colleges, still there is room for improvement in this respect. Respectfully...