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...present day; and almost every one who has any knowledge of the sort of superintendence necessary to an educational institution would agree with the Michigan Faculty when they say that "the university can better afford to be without students than without government, order, and reputation." As to the main question of hazing, let us be thankful that nothing need be said to Harvard readers, and wish for our Western sister as peaceful a settlement of the disputed point as we have had here; though, were we to say anything, we should draw our strongest argument from Ann Arbor...
HAVING made you acquainted with the programme of secondary instruction, and given you some details of the organization and management of the Lyceums and Colleges, I should have done with this question, did I not wish to make a few observations upon the very basis of instruction...
...ever to be regretted war from which we have just emerged has apparently opened our eyes. The question is now asked whether our system of national education possesses in reality all the merits which we have been accustomed to attribute to it; whether, indeed, it is not possible that it was an element of our national weakness, and a cause of our reverses...
...present time the question of reform is in order. Everybody feels that there is something to be done; modifications to be adopted, antiquities to be suppressed, new methods to be introduced. Still, there is fear and hesitation. In France, you know, we know not how to make reforms; we make revolutions...
...finally a philosophical dissertation. Three hours are given for the dissertation, four for the Latin theme. If this part of the examination is successfully passed, there comes next the oral trial, which consists of the explication at sight of a passage from a French, Latin, and Greek author; a question in history, geography, and philosophy, together with several upon the sciences, - physics, chemistry, arithmetic, geometry, etc. There is also a degree conferred called the Baccalaureat-es-Sciences, in which the sciences are the principal element. In order to attain the Baccalaureat-es-Sciences, it is necessary...