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...secondary schools originated as college preparatory schools. The college preparatory schools served, from the beginning, the educational needs of only a limited portion of the community, since their aims and scope of work were technical, designed to provide the necessary pre-collegiate training of clergymen. This technical character of the schools, in spite of the fact that the narrow curriculum comprised the elements of liberal culture as then understood, could not alone permanently hold the support of the community...
...head of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics, is now chief of the Department of Labor at Washington, and has an international reputation as a statistician and as a writer on social subjects. His lectures, which will continue through this week, will consider not only questions of method and scope in statistics, but also the history of wages as indicated by statistics, especially during the last fifty years. They will thus bear on the great social questions of the welfare of the mass of the community, and will be of interest to all students of economics...
...short stories in the number are too ambitious in going beyond the real field of undergraduate fiction, which is undergraduate fiction, which is undergraduate life. The first story in the present number, "Dalton's Awakening," deals with emotions and situations utterly beyond the scope of the author. No amount of "realistic" phrasing can cover the gaping breaks in the plot. The greatest philosophers and moralists have wrangled over the problem upon which this story is based, and the solution given here besides being inadequate, is morbid. The effect left by the story is one of mawkish sentiment...
...shelves, but the greater part remained in the hands of his heirs; and these latter are the ones which have just been bought. There are 700 volumes which are handsomely bound and in many cases very difficult to procure. The subjects treated are of a very wide scope, but the strength of the collection is in the number of mediaeval French works which it contains. In addition, though in fewer numbers, are included works in mediaeval Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German, a few in later Latin, and in the language of Provencal...
...Lawrence Scientific School has issued the preliminary announcement of the courses of study in the new four year programme in Landscape Architecture. The character and scope of the work can best be ascertained from the following statement of the yearly requirements...