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...education? Cannot we be justified in thinking that the course of events has already demonstrated the position assumed by Harvard as advanced and progressive? Increase in the number of students, increase in the interest manifested by the students, elevation in the character of the scholarship evolved, an enlarged scope of intelligent work, do not these prove the strength of the new movement and its value as an element in the reform of study? Would we be wise to look wistfully back upon the happy days of delusion if we can prove that it was delusion which possessed us. The work...
...excellent opportunities which are now afforded students of that college to pursue post-graduate courses, especially in philosophy, speak well for the undertaking. The progress which has been made in systems of study almost necessitate university methods. Any college, however prosperous, which neglects the tendencies to an enlarged scope of work and persists in purely college work, cannot reasonably hope for distinguished success or marked progress. The more collegiate study is elevated in its facilities and methods the broader will be the scholarship evolved. A university in contra-distinction to a collegiate education will be the education of the next...
...time reproach that Williams was far too conservative for its own interests has become of no significance in the last few years. Athletics are accorded their full scope, electives, without interfering with the most radical ideas of a liberal education, are multiplying, and now lastly but by no means of the least import comes the welcome intelligence that the faculty have decided in favor of semi-annual examinations. We are to be no longer tortured by a fearful looking forward to frequent judgements during the ten weary months of college work - the roots of such learning as we have acquired...
...second issue of the Monthly as a whole has much more character than the first. The scope of its contents is broader. A more marked personality distinguishes it. The field covered by the different articles includes the historic, the critical, the imaginative, the analytic, the poetic. Prof. Sanborn contributes a testimony of Harvard's part in the movement of emancipation. His words bring before the undergraduates of to-day a picture of noble work, and lead them to look forward with sturdier ambitions. All, however, will not see the paradoxical feature of Harvard's reputation. To many, Harvard...
...firm permanent basis. It has varied in its work from year to year. Public lectures by prominent visitors and by the instructors have been the outward signs of its life. This year, a new plan is to be inaugurated, which, if successful, will give the society a somewhat different scope. It is now designed to have most of the work at its meetings done by the members, to give each one an opportunity to look up some subject of present interest and have him give the result of his investigations to his fellow members. The meetings will not be exactly...