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...Harvard Divinity School has again become the theme of discussion, owing to some statements about it in President Eliot's Report. The facts of the case are these, - to put them briefly, - the School aims to be unsectarian, and is not. A writer in the Nation for Feb. 12 points out some of the causes for this discrepancy between the profession and practice there. The course of instruction, while it assumes to give a "free inquiry into theology," in reality obliges every student to follow out prescribed studies, and offers no electives. Owing to this, many members of the School...
...thing that would give me more pleasure than anything else, it would be to go to B -'s funeral. He does give the meanest examinations of any man in college. Why, if I had had six hours instead of three, I should not have had time. What did you put for that question about all those men, don't you know, who were in the Droit and Gauche, and all that...
...put on too much dog, too many lugs...
...Harvard, aside from recitations, in a social way. We read in Grecian history of the intimacy between Socrates or Aristotle and their disciples. They lived together, and the young men drank in from this friendship, not only the technical teaching of their masters, but they also saw their precepts put in practice. A man was known by the school that he had attended, and carried the example of that school into his actions in after life. The same is true of the universities that sprang up at the end of the Middle Ages, and of the various schools...
...President of a New England college, after getting a seat in a horse-car, noticed one of the Freshmen of his college curled up in front of him, and exhibiting obvious signs of vinous exhilaration. A close inspection revealed the fact that the state of inebriety was not hastily put on, like a hat, but had been worn closely, like an undershirt, for several days. For a few moments the President surveyed the undergraduate with an expression of mingled commiseration and disgust, and finally he exclaimed, "Been on a drunk !" The half-conscious student rallied his straying senses, and with...