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...system,' which is very similar to those in other colleges, the authorities in addition have drawn a line at the end of the second or sophomore year in the entire department of literature, science and the arts, between the secondary education and the higher, or genuine university education. This plan was adopted by the regents...
...widely. The Boston school teaches the principles of the law by lectures and refers the student to cases for illustration, while the Harvard professor teaches the principles of the law from the cases them selves, and compels the student to verify them by a long list of references. The plan is peculiar to Cambridge, having been introduced a few years since ??? one of the professors, and meeting with such favor and success as to comment it to the entire faculty...
...either to base all his work on the course itself, or, if he chooses, he can do a great deal of outside work connected with the course, always spurred on by the thought that he will get credit for all he does. We do not know of any better plan for encouraging independent and thorough work, and hope to see it more generally adopted...
...present year is one of experiment in the matter of college athletics. First, our own faculty came out with its plan of reform and was partially followed by a number of other colleges. And now Amherst brings forward another plan-that of entire prohibition from inter-collegiate sports, which may be called either bolder or more timid than our own, according to the way in which one chooses to look at it. The plan adopted is more in accordance with the traditions of Amherst than it would be of any of the larger colleges, and we feel positive that...
...actual service, and in no other way, that he acquires his professional fitness for commanding fleets. Is this right or is it wrong? Perhaps it is wrong, but it has gone on so for a long time. Well, why may not a preacher be formed on the same plan? John Wesley was not a greater man in preaching than Nelson in seamanship. Take, then, a youth of thirteen from the school. Apprentice him to the minister of the parish. Let him make at once preparations for clerical work. Let him store his memory with sermous, let him make abstracts...