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...maintained that the particular methods adopted are perfect in every respect; but the general plan which has been followed seems in the light of the mistakes and failures of the old Union, to be practical and expedient. We have here, at least, an honest attempt on the part of those who have at heart the debating interests of Harvard, to elevate and improve them: and it is the duty of every Harvard man, by his presence and by participation in the debates, to give this new movement his hearty support...
...annual report for 1891-92 Professor John Trowbridge calls attention to the increased attendance in the laboratory courses in Physics. It has been the policy of the department to perfect the systematic courses of laboratory instruction rather than to offer lecture courses which may serve to attract only a momentary attention to the subject. In the year 1891-92 there were 265 students in the Physics courses while this year there are 324. The growth of the laboratory courses suggests that portions of the space now occupied by cabinets of apparatus, may have to be adapted to laboratory work...
...influences which bind its teachers to the University are" says President Eliot, "chiefly: The dignity and stability of the institution; the perfect liberty of opinion; the freedom in teaching - every teacher teaching as he thinks best, except as the more experienced teachers may persuade and inform the less experienced; the great resources of the University in books and collections and the fact that any teacher can at any time cause books desirable in his department to be bought by the Library; the separation of Cambridge from the luxurious society of great cities; the propinquity to the resources of Boston...
That we may see better where the law of sacrifice comes on we may make the following subdivisions of man, first the perfect body, the ideal mind, the heart, that is the affectionate nature. We should always sacrifice the lower for the higher, the body for the mind, the mind for the heart where the love of others demands it. But above all is the soul and the grandest thing man can do is to sacrifice every thing for the integrity of his nature...
...personality which saves men is often the object of merely earthly love, the mother or father, but in extremity. souls need a greater personality than this The friendship of Christ furnishes the greatest power for making men approach perfection. In Christ men may lose themselves and feel that the command to be perfect is no longer hard to obey. We may justify ourselves by faith in a great Friend...