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...difficult than one generally thinks. The standard of journalism, as illustrated in the average newspaper of this country is low, partly because it lacks well trained and cultivated men and partly because the wretched state of the public mind is not satisfied with anything higher. There is, therefore, a need for improvement in the tone of journalism that we may have more journals in this country to compare favorably to those of Great Britain...
...people, said he, have been so low in social conditions that they have not felt the need of some expression of the peculiar temper of their age. Even in the midst of the British invasions upon England, the harp and song accompanied and perpetuated the deeds of these rough warriors. There is no question that there existed before the arrival of the Romans a distinct Celtic literature which gained its peculiar character from the domination of the Druids...
...conscience ceases to be the throne from which God rules the human race. then civilization itself becomes a wilderness. So it may be said that in our time there is a wilderness, for secret potting, sedition, crime hold away and the law of the strongest still rules. Though the need for voices in the wilderness is ever decreasing, though all observation shows that the world is getting better day by day, yet the need exists if to a less degree than it did when Rome was in her questionable prime...
...height of three feet above the level. All the best running tracks are now made in this way and it is expected that the speed of the track will be considerably increased. The work has already been laid out by the engineers and begun so that there need be no interference with the training next spring...
...report of the Medical School in the last Graduates' Magazine calls special attention to the need of increased requirements for admission to the School. The requirements for admission as they stand now are barely equivalent to the examinations for admission to college, and with the increasing numbers in the Medical School, and the higher standard of medical study itself, the requirements should be increased. The Harvard Medical School should take the first rank of any schools in the country: the extension of the course to four years was a decided step toward a higher standard of education, more attention...