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AFTERNOON SESSION.The afternoon session was opened by Superintendent Gilbert of St. Paul with a paper on the "Reconstruction of the Grammar School House." He said that it had now become a well established principle that we must teach the pupil not facts but the meaning of facts; teach him not what to do in given circumstances, but how to adapt himself to any circumstances that may arise. With any such principle, our present system is incompatible. History and geography are presented to the pupil, without ever allowing him a glimpse of their significance for his own life. He is loaded...
With a view to being near the Chicago Exposition, the eighteenth session of the Sauveur Summer School of Languages will be held this year at Rockford College, Rockford...
...important meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Association was held in New York at the Windsor Hotel, Saturday night. The meeting was decidedly more harmonious than was anticipated and all the suggestions made at last week's session were adopted. Only undergraduates may hereafter play on the college football teams, and while the University of Pennsylvania does not like the move it is hardly probable that the Pennsylvania men will retire from the association. The delegates present were: A. Maffitt and Vance C. McCormick, of Yale; George C. Fraser, J. McN. Thompson and Philip King, of Princeton; A. Thorndike...
...Amherst Summer School will have no session next summer on account of the World's Fair...
During the session of the schools the College Library will be open from 9 a. m. till 5 p. m. The Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Peabody Museum, and the Mineralogical Collection are also accesible to students during the summer vacation...