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...definition of them is necessary before any judgment ought to be passed upon college athletics. There is a decided objection to professionalism creeping into athletics, but hitherto its advances have been so slight and have been met with so much disfavor by college men who manage athletics that any reform may be safely trusted to their hands. Such a sentence as the above, doubtless made without thinking, prejudices the world at large, (who have little opportunity to view the student side of the question), to pass a hasty and one-sided judgment upon college sports...
...Pres. Eliot. A full report of the address has not yet been printed. We print below an abstract of President Eliot's remarks. The subject of the address was "The Degree of Bachelor of Arts as an Evidence of Liberal Education," and its object was to advance that educational reform now in progress whereby the circle of "liberal studies" is to be widened so as to include, besides the Latin, Greek and mathematics, which were the staples of the sixteenth century curriculum, those other sciences of later growth and of modern perfection "which now moment the highest consideration from every...
...realize this reform would, he declared, necessitate a change in educational methods, which must begin at the bottom, with the preparatory schools and academies. It involves an early differentiation of studies. Not all these subjects, each so great in itself, can be mastered thoroughly by a single individual. There must be an early choice of studies, made in the schools by the teachers themselves after a careful examination of the pupil's aptitudes; but made in college by the student himself. Not all, but only a certain proportion, of these studies must be required for a bachelor's degree...
...languages are taken up should be for many boys essentially changed. We should in vain expect such changes to be made suddenly. They must be gradually brought about by the pressure of public opinion, by the public opinion of the educated classes taking a gradual effect through educational instrumentalities. Reforms in education always advance slowly; but many of you will live to see this reform accomplished...
...technical and professional element. According to the existing scheme this specialization begins after what is called liberal education is completed, so far as it can be completed at college. But if the specialization is to begin, not only in college, but before college, it is evident that the reform contemplated by President Eliot involves not merely a revision but a revolution of the current notion of liberal education...