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COMMENCEMENT parts - are as follows: W. R. Tyler, Disquisition on Ruskin's Art Theories; F. J. Stone, Dissertation on Socialism in its Connection with Labor Reform; E. F. Fenollosa, Disquisition on Pantheism; T. L. Sewall, Dissertation on the English Agricultural Laborer; G. Wigglesworth, Oration on Joseph II.; C. F. Withington, Disquisition on Tragedy, Classical and Romantic...
...arrive at effecting reforms in our instruction? Those who see in the state the only savior address themselves to it. For my own part, I do not think that the state can accomplish these reforms. In the first place, it must be disposed to do so. In France, you know, we are accustomed to charge the government with our private affairs. It is just the way to have them badly managed. We are still in the times of Louis XIV. He says: "L'Etat, c'est moi." We have not as yet dared to reply: "L'Etat, c'est nous...
...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...
...dying system should be the subject of study; such a person would certainly say that the object of the President's visit might better have been termed the study, not of the system of instruction and general management at the English Universities, but rather of their methods of reform...
...practical advantage of the most radical reform exists only in theory. Of course, any system allowing greater freedom is sure to find sturdy partisans; but the desirability of voluntary recitations has not yet been proved. What the effect of throwing open these Elysian fields may have on the "margin of cultivation" (to quote our amiable friend, Mrs. Fawcett) is uncertain; but a judicious use of the privilege will doubtless make the students' labor easier; a man may get through many subjects, with a recitation now and then, and perhaps get as high a per cent as now, by making...