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Politics should enter more largely into the American college curriculum. It is plain that in this way alone can the standard of politics in this country be raised. The tendency of modern life is every day running towards specialization, and this tendency will undoubtedly soon be a factor in political life. In England and Germany men fit themselves specially for politics, just as others do for medicine and law. Many schools have been founded specially to prepare for the civil service examinations. The introduction of civil service reform in this country will soon necessitate such special preparation here. The universities...
...coins cannot compare in interest with the manuscripts and manuscript letters in the room. There are four plain cases which contain these literary rarities. Perhaps the most valuable and most incomprehensible to the majority of visitors are the Biblical manuscripts. There are about ten in one case, not the least of which cost three hundred francs. They range from the eighth to the seventeenth century. The oldest purports to be of the eighth century, and, "if so, is the oldest manuscript on the American continent." The majority are pictured manuscripts, and the gorgeousness of illustration is indescribable. Especially notable...
...amazing to read the names of the young "Lieuts., U. S. N.," who visited the library in the "forties." Business in their line seems to have been slack during the "calm" before the war. On June 19, 1843, in a faltering but plain hand, Robert Andrews of Bridgton, Me., 91 years old, records, "I was at the battle of Bunker Hill." On the same page John Tyler, Sr., Washington, has written his name with a firmness of hand and an amount of ink that insures it preservation "till the coming of time." With the same plainness of writing...
...place where the fire ladders are kept under University has been marked with plain white letters...
...very bulky, and could not well be stored in the entry or in any student's room. The most practicable fire-escape seemed to be the ordinary rope, and it is possible that in the end this plan for safety against fire will be adopted. If so, a plain rope will be furnished each student who desires one, but he will be obliged to keep it constantly attached to a staple in the window and coiled below ready for use. Otherwise the precaution would be almost useless, for the ropes would soon be thrown into some closet or elsewhere...