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Professor Johnston once remarked in a history course that ours was the only country since the Roman Empire in which the possession of intellect was considered a reproach. He alluded, of course, to the sneer which always accompanies the word "highbrow". It is a condition which should cause us serious reflection. One of the faults of a democracy lies apparently in the fact that while education is more widely diffused its quality is somewhat diluted. High scholarship is not honored in America as it is abroad. Other countries recognize the attainments of their learned citizens by some particular distinction: England...
...partitions, three blackboards, a small supply of paper and pencils, and fifteen textbooks, we began what later developed into a thriving school with somewhat more than 1,700 scholars, 35 teachers and 27 different courses of study. Soon after this, church services were begun in the same barrack. The Roman Catholic priest and the local Lutheran pastor were permitted to hold regular services. In connection with the church services the men organized among themselves a choir of 80 voices. Soon afterwards I was able to secure musical instruments for an orchestra of 14 players, all professional musicians. Since then they...
...sleep? The argument started at the dawn of creation and it is still debated. The ancients looked with scorn on the man who lay long abed, while Homer said, "It does not become a man of counsel to sleep the whole night." The University of Salerno in Roman days declared; "To sleep seven hours is enough for either a young man or an old one." In more modern times we have the famous dictum of Napoleon: four hours sleep for a man, five for a woman and six for a fool. Thomas Edison believes we shall have time enough...
...Chicago, contains the William Belden Noble lectures, which were delivered at the University in 1916. Professor C. H. Moore's "The Religious Thought of the Greeks from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity" deals primarily with the genetic development of the higher phases of religion and discusses ancient morality, Roman religion, Oriental cults and early Christianity. Another addition to the Harvard Theological Studies is "The Pauline Idea of Faith in its Relation to Jewish and Hellenistic," by Professor W. H. P. Hatch '98, of the General Theological Seminary...
Just before the rally tonight all Republicans will assemble in front of University Hall for a parade at 7.15 o'clock, headed by the Regimental Band, which has been especially engaged for the occasion, and lighted by red fire and Roman candles...