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Tolman Wheeler, of Chicago, has donated a valuable tract of land in the western division of that city, and advanced $290,000 towards the erection of a preparatory school under the care of the Episcopal church. The design is to be after that of Oxford, a prominent feature of the structure being a chapel and a library to contain 10,000 volumes...
Culture then is the need of America, and classical culture is the only true basis of culture. Even so ardent an opponent of Greek as Professor Josiah P. Cooke, said no earlier than 1875, in his address opening the summer school of chemistry, that if he were compelled to choose, he should take classical culture in preference to what he called "science culture...
...forming period of their lives the best that can be done for them in four years in the way of a liberal education." Such should be and has been the education that Harvard has to offer. Whether or not in the future it will become an advanced high school depends upon the action of its faculty. Mr. Arnold's remars upon Oxford form a fitting close to this article. "We, in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness of that beautiful place, have not failed to seize one truth,-the truth that beauty and sweetness are essential characters...
...amount of money; whereas, if the university idea be admitted, there is no limit to the amount of money which may be used. But this idea, I fear, is becoming obsolete. I fear it is giving place to what seems to me to be a jumble of miscellaneous, high school, and professional teaching, with no power for the formation of character, that will not even aim at it, that must prevent the possibility of giving honestly a common diploma to those who graduate, and that will keep up forever the hungry cry for money from every college in the land...
...they have the oarsman's round-shouldered stoop, and lean arm, and are fit for nothing else. He selects lads with strong legs and slight upper works, and keeps them at running or football kicking until they have the legs of Hercules under the arms and chest of a school girl. He picks out boys with strong arms and full chests, but slim legs, and puts them at dumbbells, or rings, or bars, or ladders, until they are Sampsons above, grafted upon pigmies below. Probably one tenth of the students are thus selected for transformation into illy-balanced, unevenly developed...