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MUSEUM. - "Butterfly Fever" and "Napoleon's Old Guard...
MUSEUM. - "Butterfly Fever" and "Napoleon's Old Guard...
...easy course. The elective system no doubt presents many temptations to a student not inclined to work, but, on the other hand, opportunity is given by this system to pursue a course of study calculated to educate one for his future life, whatever it may be. The old-fashioned country-college system of prescribing studies merely for mental discipline, is rapidly becoming obsolete, and the more enlightened and liberal colleges are presenting courses of study to the students from which some practical knowledge can be derived...
...college of the progressive tendencies of Harvard should be the last to repeat the old stock complaint against college journals, that they are principally fault-finders and nurses of discontent. The better class of such papers certainly studiously endeavor to abstain from all complaining that is not likely to lead to anything better than mere fault-finding. Can it not fairly be said that the greater proportion of their criticisms on local matters have for their sole object to secure reform and to raise the status of Alma Mater? Yet their aims are, more often than not, misconceived everywhere outside...
...interesting letter from its Paris correspondent, on the manners and customs of French students, from which we extract the following: "Students' private libraries are neither so large nor so varied in Paris as they are with us. The average Parisian student buys his books at second-hand in the old bookstores, or along the quays. . . . The Latin quarter is always represented by a Radical in the parliament, and most of the students are ardent Republicans. Unlike the students of Germany and the United States, the Parisian etudiant has no collection of songs. He sings 'Gaudeaumus,' it is true, and 'Lauriger...