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...possible the present educational status of Harvard, the college has prospered under the elective system, and has proved the latter a success. On the other hand, the novelty of the situation has allowed abuses and failures to find a place from which they should speedily be ousted. The greatest need of the college is broad and thorough instruction in the practical matters of the use of the English language and the principles of political science and American history. When these gaps are well filled Harvard's free and liberal system will firmly secure to her the position which...
...pity that the donors could not be judicious as well as liberal. Nearly all their gifts have the same vicious quality that has hampered the endowments of our colleges from the beginning; they are specific instead of general." He adds: "What our colleges stand in urgent need of is funds for general purposes, money which the trustees can apply where it is most needed." Finally he comes to the conclusion that it is becoming the fashion to endow the student instead of the professor, and that these scholarships, memberships, etc., instead of aiding meritorious students, offers to promising students...
...that the larger colleges, like Harvard and Yale, have much better facilities for furnishing the much-talked-of "practical" education, than do his "small and weak colleges." They, like our high and grammar schools, are of the greatest importance in promoting education, but to maintain that there is no need of universities like our own, where "the purpose is to impart a high scholarly finish to the accomplishments of a privileged class," seems to be going a little...
...yellow house which has often attracted attention, contrasting as it does so strongly with the large buildings which occupy the southern portion of the field. This little building is the college hospital, and, although small, it is yet perfect in all its arrangements. In 1874 the authorities felt the need of an institution of this sort in connection with the college, for twice in recent years the breaking out of a contagious disease had found the college unprepared for such an emergency. In the first of these cases the president had promptly thrown open his house to the sick student...
...form a disinterested opinion on the abstract question of co-education, it need hardly be said, is a very difficult matter. Indeed it can almost be said that such an opinion is impossible. Co-education is as much a question of distinct practical conditions and local influences as it is one of theoretical utility. Testimony that can be gathered from all quarters is so conflicting in character that it is next to impossible to secure any concensus of opinions which might decide...