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...should maintain a number of chairs, which bring no direct returns, for the sake of its reputation. We feel sure that the experiment of offering instruction in Chinese, for instance, will in the end result to Harvard's advantage. It is for the sake of this indirect advantage, but seldom a pecuniary one, however, that we urge the continuance of much of the special instruction for which there is as yet but little demand in this country. Of course, in the present state of the university exchequer, the maintenance of such professorships can hardly be expected, but we hope this...
...their attention being attracted by the noble castle, one of the finest ruins in Germany, which crowns the hill on whose slope the town is built. The few who know that it is an university town, by noticing the different colored caps of the students in the streets, seldom visit the buildings, and leave the town without seeing a university whose fame is world-wide...
...masters. Unfortunately, the best masters are not always the best men. That the pupils are, therefore, always led into bad courses by the example of their instructors does not follow. There is enough good sense in college students generally to dissociate good instruction from faults of character. The trainer seldom influences the student beyond the purpose of his training. The young man does not make a companion of his trainer, nor trust his morals to his direction. A remedy would be to select an amateur athlete from the graduates, educated as a physician, and give him a salaried office, with...
Graduation in our sense of the word does not exist. After a man has heard lectures for a minimum of three years, he is allowed to apply for permission to "make an examination." It is seldom that any one tries the ordeal in a shorter time, six semesters being the ordinary university course. A friend of the writer, an American, however, went up for examination at the end of his third semester in Berlin, in Physics, and what is more, he passed the examination and received his degree of Ph. D. This case may be taken as showing what...
Moreover, the ungentlemanly (?) element that is complained of in college men seldom, if ever, comes from the athletic set, but from those who have the least to do with athletics. We think it would be difficult to point out any moral evil that men receive from legitimate professional training. It is true that a few foolish and weak men have been persuaded to enter the professional arena, but that is no reason why the hundreds who do not should suffer for the faults of the very few. Men who are not able to resist the fascinating wiles of the ungentlemanly...