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...permanent plan. When the utility of the school, as bringing life and sympathy into the study of antiquity, too often arid and dead under the parrot like methods of instruction hard to avoid entirely here a study indispensable to an adequate grasp of the significance of civilization and the scope of human intelligence-is brought before the public, it is desired and expected that some of our many munificent friends of learning will by endowment place it upon a permanent basis. With a fixed director, qualified by prolonged residence on Hellenic soil, and no energy wasted in seeking to maintain...
...commissioners who has recently visited the educational institutions and industrial establishments of this country and Canada. The commissioner speaks, at the outset, of the pre-eminence of Americans in many branches of mechanical industry, and he makes this a reason for giving a general view of the character and scope of our public schools, as well as of the special provisions for industrial training. He was particularly impressed by the fact that there is not a school or college in the country in which may not be found the sons and daughters of the working classes. Frequently he found young...
Since the recent confession and exhortation of Charles Francis Adams, Jr., the great discussion concerning the study of classics has broadened its scope until we are confronted with the question, what constitutes superficiality in collegiate courses of study? The near approach of a final decision as to what shall be the chosen electives for the ensuing academic year causes the student much unsatisfactory deliberation, while the advice which is ordinarily given at this period is even, if possible, of a still more unsatisfying nature. We hear on the one hand the accusation of superficiality and on the other the equally...
...adoption of the elective system marked the first step in the conversion of Harvard from a conventional American college into a university of originality of plan and broad scope. Ever since that system was adopted the energies of this institution have been largely devoted to an adjustment of the several parts of the old system to suit the changed conditions of the new. What is to be the next great change in this process of growth is somewhat doubtful. The entire relegation of the arguer part of the work of the freshman year to the preparatory schools is avowedly...
...matter of close training and drill, we are inferior. The German University finds its men prepared to build an edifice upon a foundation already laid There is no preliminary work done in the university except in the case of some studies which are not within the scope of the gymnasium, and even here the elements are compressed into a very few lectures, and the student is left to fill in the outlines by private study. An American will find himself somewhat at a disadvantage, when he listens to Latin and Greek citations, unless he has had the advantage...