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...current discussion aroused by President Eliot's speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, President Webb of New York University, and Pres. White of Cornell represented the extreme elements in the two wings of the party which is opposed to President Eliot's radical views. How little unanimity exists between the two wings is shown by the following quotations from the two Presidents...
...being novel and as representing a too fast movement. I want to point out the fact that Harvard College has been too conservative and slow. Years ago it was pointed out that Harvard College must be changed from a school of the eighteenth century to a university of the nineteenth century. It is nearly twenty years since the elective system was adopted at the college, and it has been sixty years during which we have been developing elective studies, only finishing our work last June. The course of events shows that there is to be a real university at Cambridge...
President Eliot will read a paper before the Nineteenth Century Club next Tuesday on the "Study of Greek...
...discussion of the Greek question which should be memorable will take place in New York next month. President Eliot will address the Nineteenth Century Club on the important step lately taken by Harvard College in making the study of the classics elective to students in all classes. The debate following the exposition of President Eliot's views will be participated in by President Porter of Yale, and President McCosh of Princeton...
...arises perhaps from a misunderstanding of the term and its application to the college at large. A simple meaning is that it express a "don't-carewhat-happens" state; in other words, a non-emotional existence which has its good points when compared to the headlong whirl of the nineteenth century, and those that are bad when compared to the athletic standing of rival colleges. If indifference enables men to bear defeat or loss, either in the baseball field, in football, or at the boatrace, with tolerable equanimity, or to hail victories without any outrageous demonstration, it is, and ought...