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...question is frequently asked today, especially in America : "Does college training pay ? Do men of natural force and ability really benefit by the outlay of time and money required for a university education ?" The so-called "self-made men" point with a just pride to Abraham Lincoln and to Peter Cooper and ask . "What better men than these, do the colleges turn out ?" It is not my purpose to discuss how many college men may be but pedants and dreamers, nor to attempt to prove that "self-made men" may be woefully lacking in all real worth, but my object...
...scandalized by the desertion of one of the professors of the Boston University from the society of his learned associates, and his subsequent debut upon the stage as an actor in a play of his own composition This one case certainly was bad enough had it shood by self as an example of the innate depravity even of the most cultivated and most gifted professional mind- as a convincing proof that professors like other men are mortal, a theory which has heretofore met with a very cold reception from the learned world at large. But this case we regret...
...takes a professorship in a faculty in the provinces. The method of instruction in France is well adapted to give pupils, of even moderate capacity, sufficient knowledge for the routine of their calling. They have no choice between different teachers, and they swear in verbamagistra; this gives a happy self-satisfaction and freedom from doubts. If the teacher has been well chosen, this is sufficient in ordinary cases, in which the pupil does what he has seen his teacher do. It is only unusual cases that test how much actual insight and judgment the pupil has acquired. The French people...
...hope that the freshmen will support their nine in their third and decisive game with Yale today. It is needless to enlarge on the advantage of having a large crowd of Harvard men present at the game, as this is self-evident. The freshmen should not be content to rest on the one victory they have won, but should endeavor to win the series, and give Yale to understand that the Harvard freshmen have broken the charm of Yale's success. It is unfortunate that their university men should have been obliged to play so many games immediately preceding...
...instructor would take the exact place of any, even the best parent. So, too, at Harvard the theory of what may be called "mechanical repression," such as prevails at military and naval schools, is not maintained. The student, without the pressure of a system of rigid rules, is taught self-respect and self-control. There is more freedom than there was twenty years ago, and the result is there is better order. So also the relation between teacher and student is of a far different character from what it once was. The influence which the young men exerted on each...