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Those who believe that he only is truly educated who can point out a Greek root in an English derivative, and quote Sophocles and Plautus, will hold the view that Harvard's walls will be filled by "superficial practicalists." Others who believe that educated men should be something beside curiosity...
"The marvellous growth and awakening of the college consequent upon the transfer of the privilege and responsibility of shaping its policy from the legislature to the alumni, and their wise exercise of this power, has inspired its friends, within and without, with new interest and confidence, and hence the continuous...
The " Pot Pourri" for 1885 has just been issued at Yale, and is, on the whole, very attractive. Among the illustrations so liberally distributed through it, the reader will be rather surprised to see some very familiar prints of the Illustrated London News, as, in a book of this description...
We talk of freedom in still another sense when we say that we do something freely, gladly, or willingly. Here it is not a question of obstacles at all; our attention is not directed to the facility or possibility of the action, but to the pleasure we take in doing...
Another point about the scheme is that it establishes a deliberative, not a representative body. The conference will, therefore, be something like a parliamentary committee.