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"The extinction of disinterested study is a necessary consequence of the encouragement to cram. When the best and most receptive years of a man's life have been passed in having the doctrine ground into him, that the end of all study is to cheat the examiner, and that knowledge...
The specialist at the Universities finds himself a marked man, with a weaf of hay upon his horns; he is looked upon with mingled feelings of suspicion and pity. That there can be any knowledge outside of the curriculum of the University, or if there is, that it is of...
The two time-honored English universities, instead of holding up an ideal of sound learning and disinterested study, and checking the present Chinese current of popular belief, have degraded into mere examining machines. In the place of the calm pursuit of knowledge and the encouragement of original research, we have...
The tenth and last of the series was given last evening and was devoted to a consideration of Wagner, his works and advance from the old methods of operatic writing to the original and peculia ideas of the "music of the future." His style and the quality of his genius...
The new courses for upper-classmen are: In German one, a half course which is for "practice in writing and speaking German," and which will satisfy a need that has long been felt by the less advanced students of German; in Political Economy, one; in History, two, and in Mathematics...