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...public education was under ecclesiastical rule but little was accomplished. In 1847 there were 2,500 schools, 27,000 teachers, 125,000 scholars. In 1864 Russia was divided in thirty-five educational divisions and in 1871 there were 60,700 schools and 675,000 scholars. There is a great need of better teaching. In 1866 there were only nine seminaries for teachers, and although in 1876 the number had increased to sixty there is still a great demand. The course of the universities is four years and they are modeled after the German universities. In 1811 Greek was introduced...
...most crying need of the students is more dormitories near or in the college yard by which they may be within easy reach of all the buildings, and also be free from the extortion practised by Cambridge boarding-house keepers, whose prices rise year by year as they see each freshman class larger than the last, more than ever at their mercy from want of sufficient accommodations under college rule. The most pressing need of the college, according to the president's report, is more unencumbered money for running expenses. The treasurer's report states that the percentage of returns...
President Porter, of Yale says that "the rush and hurry of our modern activity needs the infusion of a calmer spirit and of steadier thoughts. Its rash and eager generalizations and its exaggerated statements need strong and steady thinkers who were trained in the school of severe definitions and sharp conceptions and steady and clear-eyed good sense. The extravagant oratory, the sensational declamation, the encumbered poetry, the transcendental philosophy, the romantic fiction, the agnostic atheism, the pessimistic dilettanteism, to which modern speculation, and modern science and modern poetry tend, need now and then a "season of calm weather," such...
...lighted and heated an hour longer could not be much; it seems a pity to save money in such a way. The benefit derived from it would be many-fold the expense, especially at the present time, when the students are working hard in preparation for the midyears, and need above all things the benefit of sound sleep...
...what I have in another place called "mercantilism" I see nothing but a more devoted cultivation of art, science, and literature which can modify this. And, so far as literature is concerned, while I have nothing to say against those who are devoted to ancient literature, we certainly need for the great majority the study of literature, rich, accessible, directly bearing on modern life. In my judgment. the great German literature best suits this need...