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...concerts the Glee Club of Columbia College introduced a banjo duett, and now the Acta Columbiana desires that the college have a regular banjo club. That would do, but they should have jig dancers also. - [Progress...
...when a lady does or says any thing in the class room or on the campus which would not become her in the drawing room. All of them show an earnestness for and devotion to their work, which is fit, proper and an honor to any student. - [Letter in Progress...
...writer maintains that the early colleges, founded with this view, have perpetuated this idea of thorough intellectual training, independent of professional study. To account for the modification now in progress in American colleges, the writer assigns three reasons - the increase of wealth in the community and the consequent increase in educational funds, the influence of science, and the progress of religious freedom. He fears that too much of the wealth, however, goes for the erection of showy building and the founding of scholarships, while but little is devoted for the maintenance of the academic staff. The result of this...
...lecture last night was principally an answer to Henry George's "Progress and Poverty." Gen. Walker first commented on the position taken by Mr. Mill in his later years on the land tenure question, and then gave a complete statement of Mr. George's theory of rent and the nationalization of the land. As to Mr. George's three great arguments, he affirms that commercial disturbances are due to speculations in land. This assertion, however, has no evidence to support it, and is opposed to the opinions of all economists. Land is far from being an object peculiarly subject...
...editorial in the Boston Journal of Saturday commends highly the steady progress made by Harvard in the way of offering new courses of study, but criticises the lack of instruction offered in Modern History and Political Economy...