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...college cannot but receive with the greatest relief and satisfaction the news that Professor Palmer has decided to refuse the offer made him by Chicago University and to remain at Harvard. As anyone who comes in contact with the philosophical department must realize at once. Professor Palmer's position in that department is one that it would have been almost impossible adequately to fill, and Harvard has reason to congratulate herself that she is not forced to try to fill...
...Harvard has reason to do more than merely congratulate herself that she is to retain an invaluable instructor. The opportunities held out to Professor Palmer by his offer from Chicago were of the most brilliant and dazzling nature. His field would have been very wide, his position conspicuous, and his chance for self-advancement unusually great, yet all these attractions were not sufficient. Exactly what the considerations were that kept him with us, this is not the place to discuss. Whatever they were this one thing is certain, that they were sufficient to make him decline an offer that must...
Prof. H. S. Williams, Professor of Geology and Paleontology at Cornell University, has received an offer of the chair of Geology at Yale...
Professor E. H. James, of the U. of P., has declined President Harper's offer of $7,000 to teach political economy at Chicago University...
...science, and art, I think, has to be learned by trial and failure. The true teacher is born, not made, and the most pedagogy can hope to do is to give hints. The most successful adapt themselves to the state of mind of those they teach. I purpose to offer suggestions along the line of history, large and broad, but brief and general, which each will have to apply for himself. When we come where specializations are necessary, on the whole the person who knows his subject best will teach it best. Get then a comprehensive grasp of the subject...