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...recent lecture on "The Lesson of Greek Art" in New York, Dr. Charles Waldstein, of Cambridge University, lately of Columbia College, took occasion to draw the moral from Greek art in favor of the highest and most liberal education in this country. The advice of the King of Bavaria to a young architect, he chained, was the advice we, of all nations, needed most to heed: "Build your spire first! The others will see to it that the nave does not remain unfinished"-advice the very reverse in purport of the popular maxim of "penny wise and pound foolish...
...recent inter-collegiate convention of the Y. M. C. A. at Amherst, the Harvard delegates reported a membership of 70 at the college with constant additions and frequent meetings...
...indication that the recent discussion in the Nation of the so-called senior society evil at Yale has not been without effect on the college itself, is seen in the fact that at a meeting of the senior class of the college last week a resolution condemning the system was lost by a very narrow vote. Naturally the discussion is one that chiefly interests Yale men, since the society system in vogue at New Haven has very few points of similarity with the system at any other college. As it is it must be considered an excellent thing that...
...discussion of the matter of the abolition of the prescribed study of Greek in the colleges, at present a question of such living interest to Harvard, is continued by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., in a third edition of his recent Phi Beta Kappa address, containing an appendix with much new matter and further testimony on the subject. Mr. Adams considers the recent argument derived from the testimony and experience of Berlin University in the matter, and calls particular attention to the agitation of the Greek question in England, particularly at the universities, where he thinks that the tendency of opinion...
...writer in a recent Saturday Review on "Old Writers and Modern Readers," discourses at length in the indolence of modern readers and the dying out of the old classics in English literature in consequence of this indolence. In this connection the examination system of the present day comes up. "Among all the evils that follow in the train of a regular system of examinations," says the writer, "we know of none greater than a certain habit of indolence which it forms in the mind. It encourages a student-nay, even in the press of competition it almost forces...