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...German universities have retained the old conception of students as that of young men responsible to themselves, striving after science of their own free will, and to whom it is left to arrange their own plan of studies as they think best. If attendance on particular lectures was enjoined for certain callings-what are called "compulsory lectures"-these regulations were not made by the university, but by the state, which was afterwards to admit candidates to these callings-At the same time the students had, and still have, perfect freedom to migrate from one German university to another, from Dorpat...
...Charles Dudly Warner is busily preparing a series of lectures on literature, to be delivered before the Senior class of Princeton College. It is a part of the plan of Princeton to invite specialists in every department of knowledge to supplement the regular courses of instruction...
...earnest protest of the Vassar graduates against the plan pursued in that college bears upon a singular part of our modern educational training. The protest was moderate and strong in both meaning and language, and deserves careful attention from every parent. The author (who had herself won the first place in the graduating class and was therefore entitled to speak) urged that the system of placing "honors" at graduation before the pupil at her entrance into school as the chief object of her endeavors "induced a nervous strain incompatible with her highest physical or mental development. The system...
...colleges, is one of peculiar interest and value. With its magnificent endowment, this institution has been enabled to offer privileges for the study of specialties not strictly professional which no other university of the country has been able to equal. It is very evident that a university on the plan of Harvard, with its comparatively limited funds and with its multifarious schools and extensive academical department, cannot hope to afford such instruction to graduate students of the liberal arts and sciences as Johns Hopkins, with its narrower and more limited range. Therefore the institution of the latter university...
...plan agreed upon by the President and Secretary Folger there will be a reduction of about thirty internal revenue districts throughout the country. Massachusetts will have but one collector...