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...which they could not master without help, and still more have been driven to the expensive alternative of tutoring. Thus the Freshmen, with the exception of the few mathematical minds among them, have been forced to go through an ordeal the only value of which has been the questionable moral training which suffering gives. The private tutors in Cambridge find pupils almost solely in the Freshman class, and very rarely in any subject but Mathematics. It is evident that no study should be required in College which a large number cannot master without other instruction than is afforded...
There are other arguments, practical and moral, in favor of this plan, too numerous to be given in this article. It seems to me that from whatever standpoint you look at it this arrangement is desirable. It is politic, fair, and just, while the present plan is impolitic, - since it is uncertain of success, - and is eminently unfair and unjust to a large number of students...
...Visiting Committee for 1875 - 76 have made their report. While they find the College generally in a satisfactory and improving condition, changes are suggested in almost all the departments. In the department of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, although "the young men are stimulated to think for themselves upon controverted points, and care is taken to acquaint them with the objections which must be met before satisfactory conclusions can be reached," the result often unsettles conviction and produces "a sceptical turn of mind which is the more hopeless because it thinks itself rational and scientific." In Philosophy 3, the Critique...
...taken the position for years held by the Courant, and will not hereafter advertise beer, wine, and ale shops. At least, so it says. We congratulate the Lit. on its moral reformation...
...upholder of moral principles (for in New Haven total abstinence seems to take the place of what is understood elsewhere as morality) then entreats the editors of the Lit. not to forget that "theirs is a literary magazine in a University, and not a brewer's journal in Milwaukee...