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...misunderstand the term freshman. Among the ancient Hindoos, by whom the word was first used, the sterner sex alone was capable of imbibing Greek, Latin and elocution; but tempora mutantur, and with the advent of the nineteenth century it was necessary for women too to be acquainted with empiricism and algebra, and therefore the old Sanskrit word has lost something of its significance...
President Eliot, of Harvard, will read a paper before the New York Nineteenth Century club during the winter upon "Religion in College...
...spoke of the three great masters in the three great periods of the school's life.- Cheever in the seventeenth century, Lovell in the eighteenth, and Gardner in the nineteenth. The school was the teacher of many of the most prominent men of the country. Within its walls John Hancock learned to trace the name which stands first among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Here were educated the Adamses, Paul Revere, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Emerson, Beecher, President Eliot, and a host of men who have stamped themselves on the minds of men. The speaker declared himself...
...Departure in College Education" is the title of a pamphlet from the press of Scribner's Sons, New York, containing the reply of President McCosh to the views advanced by President Eliot at the recent meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club. The paper is ably written, and will, at a later date, be briefly reviewed in these columns...
...stand midway between the two extremes as represented by Dr. McCosh and President Eliot. I cannot indorse the elective system as President Eliot expounds and defends it, for his position seems to me open to many of the objections which Dr. McCosh urged at the recent meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club. For instance, it is true that under a system of complete election, a student may get a degree for the study of music, the French drama similar dilettante branches, although it is, perhaps, true that a student who pursues this course would get about as much good from...