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...adjustment of expense accounts for the paternal inspection?" The slight flippancy of that last sentence may be disregarded, and the statement of fact given in the extract stands as a convincing argument for sceptics. Indeed, the question is hardly a debatable one at all. Reason does not need to be convinced; it is only popular prejudice that is to be refuted and driven from the field, and in this all fair statistics are a certain and invincible ally. It is the statement of Matthew Arnold, in his book on "Higher Schools in Germany," that it is coming...
...Peabody Museum is soliciting subscriptions to a fund to be devoted to the further collection of specimens of American archaeology. The need is very urgent, for exploration in this country is being carried on so rapidly that soon all the best specimens of aboriginal civilization will have been collected; and at present our museum has no funds whatever for making collections. Theodore Lyman, J. C. Phillips and Stephen Salisbury head the list with $500 each...
...character could be worthy of the support of the entire university and its friends. Still, the failure of the Register will be likely to prevent any future schemes of such a sort for a long time to come. Nevertheless, the Register was called into being to supply an actual need of the college at the time; its fault was, that it more than supplied that want. Now that that paper has died, the same want again exists, after having been once partially satisfied. That want is not now, we believe, by any means adequately supplied by the University Bulletin...
...become a suitable organ of the university. The official circulars of the Johns Hopkins University, containing extensive synopses and reports of work and results reached by their investigators, as well as legal announcements, is certainly an interesting and successful publication; and Harvard should not longer remain in need of some such a publication. Hardly any more useful application for a moderate endowment could be suggested than one towards defraying the expenses of such a publication. The Bulletin, at present, is only quarterly; its notes are meagre and unsatisfactory; and as a whole it is not a fair representative of Harvard...
...notwithstanding this, it is an error to think that these provincial colleges are useless, yes, pernicious affairs, doing more evil than good. It is said that there ought to be two or three good universities in the country, and that as such places already exist, there is no need for the many institutions that furnish advanced instruction. England, and all foreign countries in fact, are cited as examples of the truth of this, and as showing the good result of having few colleges. But those who talk in this way fail to take into consideration the vast difference...