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...fifth annual report of the executive committee of the Archeological Institute, of which Prof. Charles Eliot Norton is president, has been published in pamphlet form, together with the report of the committee on the American school which we recently reviewed...
...June Century is fully up to the standard of the other numbers which we have received. President Eliot discusses the question "What is a Liberal Education?" and tries to show that the sciences and English should be given leading places in the school and also in the college. An interesting article is Miss Fanny Storie's "Diary of an American Girl in Cairo during the War of 1882." The illustrated papers are "A French-American Seaport," which is an account of the Island of St. Pierre off Newfoundland; "Sailors' Snug Harbor," by Franklin H. North; "American Wild Animals...
...afford the best chance for improvement, it seems best to abolish compulsory work in freshman year, and this can only be done by a change in the work required from the preparatory schools. Raising the standard for admission would bring about several desirable results: It would bring an older class of men here from the schools; it would raise the scholarship both of the college and the school; it would give a year more for following out any particular branch a man may elect. Nearly every one feels how short a time three years is to accomplish anything definite...
...when they must needs go so far as to make a public attack on the umpire, they are going a little too far. We do not stoop to deny the slanders, prompted by defeat, which their mouth-piece, the Philippians has made. But there must be somewhere in the school a streak of ordinary good-breeding in the midst of the vulgarity that is so prominent, and we would ask the decent element in the school to make an apology, as public as the insult, in order that they may partially redeem the good name of their school. Hereafter...
...annual parade and review of the Boston School regiment occurred Friday forenoon. Many students who were former officers of the 2nd (Roxbury Latin School) battalion. and 3rd (Boston Latin School) Battalion were present at the brigade drill on the Common...