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Then, too, such a system would bring a number of preparatory scholars here during commencement week, and the glamour of that delightful period would have its effect on their youthful imaginations. Princeton then is beautiful in the "high tide of June," full of fair visitors, rich with birds and blossems...
Under the above title, President Eliot, in an essay published in this month's Century, says: "To the list of studies which the sixteenth century called liberal, I would therefore add, as studies of equal rank, English, French, German, History, Political Economy and Natural Science, not one of which can...
It is true we have no training in the mechanic arts, a very practical sience. A university, however, does not at tempt to give technical training to this extent, nor would it be wise that it should. Those who advocate this training as a necessary part of a college education...
Some hundred years ago, when the college was yet young, the requisition for entrance was "to read and converse in easy Greek and Latin," and although candidates for admission did not come up to the present ideal in classical knowledge, still it must be confessed that they made the crude...
It is but seldom that one can compare any of the small or even moderate sized colleges with the larger universities, and it is even more rare to find in such institutions some qualities which their larger rivals lack. Still, that a small college possesses some advantages that great universities...