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...belong to any branch of learning-is denied to Modern Languages, and attributed exclusively to the classics and sciences. The result of this pre-possession against Modern Languages is, naturally enough, a verification of the general notion. Since nobody believes that mental discipline can be obtained from this sort of study, nobody either studies or teaches the subject in the proper way for getting such discipline. There are no such textbooks as there are in the other branches of study. For a scientific exposition in grammar and the nature of language in general, one goes to the classics rather than...
...purpose of forming another organization. A notice of this meeting could be circulated, and an opportunity thus offered for those interested to get together at an appointed time and place, and then to consider the advisability of accepting the offer of the present management. We hope something of the sort will be done, for we should regret to see the Art Club disappear. It is true that within late years it has not occupied the position it deserves, but we think that with a new and energetic management the present luke warmness will soon give way to a useful activity...
...games last year, "indicates a deplorable lowering of the general tone of college sentiment." These are golden words, and from them we gather encouragement for the cause of athletic reform. Not that we believe that Mr. Ripley reflects the general sentiment of Yale; but a little leaven of this sort introduced there can not but work some change...
...committee out of question; the curious, the talkative, and most of the Freshman class would come, but the very men most wanted might stay away. Election of representatives by the classes would be unsatisfactory, the committee thought, as the men thus chosen would all be the same sort of men, popular men, and would really represent only a very small proportion of the students. Similar objections were found to the other plans of representation that were suggested. The committee felt that a conference which turned out a failure would do more harm than good, too great harm to risk...
...interest in the general subject of political philosophy among Americans, has always been of the liveliest sort. It is undeniable, however, that there is, in proportion to this interest, a noticeably small amount of definite knowledge and hence of definite thinking on this subject among both the great public, and among men of broad education. In a practical way, instruction in the actual status of political systems is fairly adequate in this country. Just as in England, it has been said, interest attaches more to the history of the English constitution as a growing political system, so in the United...