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...printed in Thursday's issue in regard to the Sauveur School of Languages, which will be held during six weeks of this summer, as in the last few years, and we wish to say a few words about it. This school seems to have found a solution of the problem which has been puzzling the brains of educators for a number of years past,-how to teach modern languages in classes so that they may become real and live to the students. The scheme is to educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice, so that...
...public sentiment (a sentiment by the bye already changed and now favorable to what it formerly censured) have gonr through a college course uninjured morally, and greatly benefited intellectually. The unexpected success in America of the vauious college annexes ought aid the thinkers in England in solving the difficult problem and show them that here, at least, popular prejudice has been changed by the successful result of an experiment. That woman ought not to receive the same salary as men is evident, because they are personally weaker and cannot endure what men can. Yet, to say that a women ought...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON - In a recent editorial, the Advocate generously propounds a problem to the incoming board of directors of Memorial Hall and with characteristic modesty refrains from even hinting at a solution. As we can readily conceive the burden under which the directors are laboring, we offer for their consideration sundry suggestions, the adoption of which, we have no doubt, will render Memorial Hall an institution of still greater worth and splendor...
...Cornell, has long been recognized as one of the foremost educators in this country. In an address, delivered some few days ago at the lying of the corner stone of a student society hall, he took occasion to make some statements, which, on that account, deserve attention. "The problem of housing students." he says especially in American universities, has long been a serious one. To coop them up in large dormitories or barracks, with possibly a tutor or young professor to act as policeman over them, has always been a fruitful cause of disorder. So fully is this recognized that...
...some length against the protection tariff, and claimed that the general competition of the world will find where a staple can be manufactured cheapest before mere local competition and experience show that the tariff is prejudicial to the woolen industry. The speaker glanced at the labor and capital problem and said that great danger lurked in a breach between employee and employer. Mr. Hazard evidently spoke in sympathy with the feeling of his audience, and the close of his lecture was followed by prolonged applause. There was a good attendance and great interest was manifested...