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...wish to pursue the study of some special subject. It prophesies a still further increase in the number of courses and students for another year, and will in time result in the school demanding as much attention and thought as the regular college term. Chemistry, Geology and Physics seem to have been among the most popular courses. There were several advanced courses here as well as elementary courses. Beside the courses in English, History and modern languages which would naturally be offered, there were several courses hardly to be called "popular" in the strict sense of the word but which...
...taken us many centuries to understand these truths and even today we seem not to realize that all men are brethren. The Jews of old knew that God alone is master, no man else, and in a way recognized that all are brothers. For many democratic principles were their possession, notably the right of universal suffrages and popular education. Then came Christ and taught his disciples that all men rich and poor, are before everything else brothers...
...months of college life that remain are but a short time to finish the work for which four years have been devoted, - four years that at the best have been short. To the freshman, unconscious and heedless of the vast field of opportunities spread before him four years seem a long period, but to the senior who has learned by experience those opportunities and who, looking back on them, sees where he has improved them and where he has let them pass, the time seems very short. After all, four years are none too long a period in which...
Professor Horsford died very suddenly of heart disease at his home in Cambridge Sunday afternoon. He was apparently in the best of health on Saturday, and to the many who knew him the announcement of his death will seem almost increditable...
...course in journalism may seem "delusive" at first glance,-even, perhaps, at a last glance. Yet the course at the University of Chicago has a practical side worth considering. It aims, in words of a member of the faculty "to put into just and effective comparison the different ideals and standard of journals in this country; and, again, to put into like comparison the different types of journalism prevailing in the United States on the one hand and in Great Britain on the other." In addition students will have experience under careful criticism in writing editorial articles and paragraphs...