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A recent number of the Springfield Republican contains a letter on the subject of "Political Economy at Harvard." Although the article contains nothing new, it incidentally mentions the growing importance of political study in a college course as a means of preparation for active political or journalistic life. This fact...
A writer in the Portland Transcript, commenting on the subject of elective studies in colleges, which as he declares is "one of the live issues of the day," says: "When the student is allowed to select his studies, some care should be taken to prevent him from choosing studies that...
"Each student should be required - as indeed he is, at Johns Hopkins University - to select some four or five subjects or departments, and to confine himself to these during his course, and this is practically what all of the good students do, and they select their studies with much thought...
After referring to the good work President McCosh has done, "from whose instruction not half a dozen of young men have gone out into the world believing nothing," he turns to the influence of the professors at Harvard. "Would," he cries, "that icebergs in college chairs could read Tennyson's...
The object of my statement is just what I have in mind as my object; otherwise my statement means nothing at all. But if the object of my statement is what I have in mind, how can my statement fail to agree with this object? i. e., how can my...