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...haunts of men whose shoulders are stooped and whose eyes are dimmed by a continued perusal of dismal texts. One should not sate himself with too much library but a judicious use of this advantage, among the many others which students in Cambridge possess, adds a depth and scope to a man's education which is absolutely essential to one who desires to be considered a cultured gentleman. Everyone must know how mortifying it is to have people talk to you about men of whom you have never heard or of books which you have never read. Why then should...
...general adoption among the other leading colleges of the country. Mr. Curtis then unfolds a plan by which the highest aims in education can be attained. He says that the high schools should now be made to serve the purpose of the colleges of two generations ago while the scope of the universities should be so enlarged that they can serve as a field for the individual expansion of the students. With regard to the colleges which still retain the ancient rigid requirements of classics, Mr. Curtis says "no college can justly plume itself upon superior fidelity to the classics...
...fall of 1883 a new system of college government was presented to the Bowdoin students for ratification, the general scope of which is indicated by the following clause from Article...
...means a flattering complaint to Harvard enterprise. It cannot be allowed to continue. It must be seen that success in a college publication is entirely dependent upon the interest manifested in it by the college. However talented the board of editors may be, however wide and comprehensive the scope of the publication, it is simply impossible to keep any paper alive without the interested and enthusiastic support of the students. Other smaller colleges support as many, or more papers, which are of an inferior merit, than Harvard. The success which is vouchsafed to many of our contemporaries surely...
...music, the archaeology of art and numismatics. (6) Antiquities (including folk-lore) takes other departments of archaeology; popular ballads and tales, as well as mediaeval romances, find their places here, while ballads not of popular origin appear under the final head; here, too, are placed anthropology and ethnology. The scope of (7) History and geography (including politics and general biography) is sufficiently indicated by its title, but it should be explained that biographies of artists should be looked for under fine arts, of astronomers under science, etc.; genealogios and heraldry fall here, as well as legislation and constitutional and international...