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...higher and more recondite branches of learning, are sufficient evidence that this problem is present before the authorities-that is, "that ampler provision is required for teaching in a great number of more recondite subjects." (3) "Something should be done to enable the university to help original research." To a certain extent the scheme of an American school at Athens, in which Harvard has so much interest at present, may be said to be a move towards the solution of this problem. But it is doubtful whether improvement is so much needed in this direction as in what is comparatively...
...required for teaching in a great number of more recondite subjects, and encouragement should be given to men, who do not intend to pass through the whole university course, to come and attend lectures in these subjects. (4) Something should be done to enable the university to help original research, and to increase the number of residents who devote themselves to the pursuit of learning. At present large funds are wasted in what are called "prize-fellowships." Unfortunately the land revenues of the colleges have suffered from the competition of Western America, and money is wanting to carry out some...
...good manners and good morals, but determined by the quality of the best students rather than of the worst, admit to its instruction all persons competent to receive it, while jealously guarding its degrees, and promote among all its members a productive activity in literature and in scientific research...
...case may be. He appears commonplace, quiet and orderly. But few would suspect the latent wealth of stone-throwing, howling and sign-disturbing possibilities that lies hidden away in his slight form. What causes these demonstrations? That is a question which has baffled the strongest light of modern research, and the problem is still wrapped in mystery. Begun in barbaric ages, when those who studied were supposed to be so exalted over the ignorant throng of townspeople as to be moving in a region of irresponsibility, these customs of college lawlessness have hitherto resisted even the march of the nineteenth...
...most heartily support the Advocate in its editoral article on retiring allowances for professors. It has long been a reproach to Harvard that her professors, when exhausted by a long life of mental labor and research, must expect no calm old age, but must continue on in the dull routine of lecture and recitation, until, like faithful and worn-out horses, they die still in the harness. The recognition by the College that it is a duty to provide for the declining years of those who have spent their youth in her service, not only ought to attract earnest scholars...