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...Broad education" and "specialism" are both good in their respective ways: without the former, the world would be a chaotic mass of egotism; without the latter, progress would be dead. Young men coming to Harvard should be allowed to choose for themselves whether to continue their general education, or to launch at once into some one branch of study. The ranking system should place no premium on either plan; an unbiased choice should be allowed, free from all unworthy motives...
...some $200,000 is needed, and as Washington took so much interest in this particular university, it seems peculiarly fitting that his birthday should be made the occasion of such a gift as the one in contemplation. "It was when Washington was in Philadelphia, in 1796, as president," says Progress, "that he made the munificent gift of $50,000 to Liberty Hall Academy, now Washington and Lee University; and it was upon Pennsylvania's soil, and in the Sacred Hall of Independence, that the Centennial Organization, for adding to its usefulness, was perfected in 1876. And the fact that Washington...
Under the "reform" which is suggested, the specialist is triumphed over by the superficialist, which is exactly contrary to the tendency of modern progress...
FEBRUARY 3. SUNDAY.Appleton Chapel. Rev. James M. Whiton, of Newark, N. J., 7.30 P. M. Subject: Progress the Law of Life...
SENIOR FORENSICS.Third forensic, due on March 19. Subject: 1. Does the history of progress favor utilitarianism? 2. May virtuous acts be defined as those which tend to produce happiness? 3. "You cannot make men moral by Act of Parliament" (comment on this statement). 4. Should district and State boundaries be obliterated or ignored in the election of representatives and senators in the United States? 5. Compare Grant and Lee as military commanders...