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...religious feelings among the students have suffered for lack of some definite, recognized organization and expression. To give strength to what religious tendencies there were in the University, religious societies were started, of which there are now three. Whatever good these societies have done, there is still a need felt for a further strengthening and building up of the religious interests. Following the example of certain other colleges which have their religious interests fostered in one building, the agitators of the new plan propose to erect a building at Harvard which shall stand pre-eminently for the religious life...
...college is fortunate in having an opportunity to hear Mr. Black deliver his lectures on literary topics. In giving his Mr. Black is filling a distinct need at the university. A large number of men who come to college have to devote so much of their time to whatever special courses they are pursuing that they find no time for that more delicate form of education which is found in a study of literature. They have not the leisure to take one of the English courses, and yet they feel the need of some general knowledge of English literature...
...decided to have the sparring contests in the second Winter Meeting at the end in the order of events. While preparations are being made for this there will be ample opportunity for ladies to leave if they are unwilling to remain. By this arrangement no one need feel obliged to stay away on account of personal objection to boxing...
...text books are necessarily brief and require more explanations than the teacher can supply. In order to make good this need each school should have a good library, containing an encyclopedia, physical and geographical atlases, geographical magazines and stories of travel prepared by travellers and not readers of travels. The teacher should give out subjects for the members of the class to look up and to report on to the rest of the class. In this way an interest in the subject is aroused which original investigation always adds. These exercises may be made useful as an exercise in English...
...Association of Colleges in New England, impressed with the real unity of interest and the need of mutual sympathy and help throughout the different grades of public education, invites the attention of the public to the following changes in the programme of New England Grammar Schools, which it recommends for gradual adoption...