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...June 13 from 9 A. M. to 12 M. Packages (16 yard, 10 Memorial, 7 tree and 4 Sanders tickets) to be selected by lot will be sold to members of the senior class at $11 a package. Seniors in the Scientific school and past members of the class now in college must apply at the same time as the regular seniors. Members of the graduating classes of the Law and Medical Schools and candidates for higher degrees will be allowed six-yard and three Memorial tickets on payment of $3.00. Past members of the class not now in college...
...business. At 6 P. M. the president, trustees, professors, instructors, fellows, graduates and candidates for degrees entered Hopkins Hall and took their places. President Gilman's address to the students graduating urged that they should encourage popular education, doing what they could to advance the interest of the common school; that they should be interested in politics, have opinions, scan principles, and not stand aloof because of the cry against parties or politicians; that they should be afraid of error, never be afraid of truth, and never suffer themselves to speak with disdain of faith, for this is the beginning...
...this country who belong to the intellectual professions are not liberally educated. Various reasons may be given for this, but there is no doubt but that "it is also due to the antiquated state of the common college curriculum, and of the course of preparatory study at school." The sciences are recommended early in the course and "English should be studied from the beginning of school life to the end of college life." It is only right that the classics should stand on their own merits. "It is not the proper business of universities to force subjects of study...
Twenty-five men from San Francisco expect to enter Sheffield Scientific school next Fall...
...have a mistaken idea of the true position of a university in the intellectual development of the country. There is a wide distinction between a mechanical education and a university training. Abundant opportunities are given for the former at places of instruction like the Institute of Technology with its School of Mechanic Arts. There better facilities are offered for a technical education than could ever be found at a college or university. The country has need both of technical schools and of colleges. It does not follow, however, that the two must be consolidate. Each meets a separate want...