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...intellectual appetite. Still even this motive cannot be wholly approved, since it is selfish and tends to destroy the balance and evenness of physical development. There is yet another motive-to extend the boundaries of knowledge by the truth-seeker, but this cannot be the right aim since the object truth is unattainable and it is not right for us to try to find what we cannot reach. Truth is unattainable because what we do know as certain compared to what we do not know is insignificant...
Prof. F. J. Child has been elected president of "The American Folk-lore Society," which has for its object the study of folk-lore in general and in particular the collection and publication of the falk-lore of North America...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Shortly after the recess, the Saturday afternoon contests in the pole vaults, in the running high jump and in putting the shot will be commenced. The object is to develop men who shall win for Harvard at Mott Haven...
...very interesting and valuable pamphlet on the "The Study of History in American Colleges and Universities" has recently been published by the Burean of Education, at Washington. The main object of the publication is to trace the origin of the study of history at the various centers of learning in this country and to show the importance of the political and narrative history of the United States to the college faculties. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and University of Michigan have been taken as the representative colleges for men in the United States. The following is an extract from the chapter...
...What Limitations, if any, are imposed by the Federal Constitution on the rights of States to enact Quarantine Laws? 3. History of the Law of Business Corporations prior to the year 1800. The successful essay will be printed in the Harvard Law Review. The object of the association in offering this prize is part of the larger object for which the association was first organized, to call the attention of the graduates to the work being done by the school, and to interest them in aiding the growth of the school by their individual efforts and influence. The president...