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...special course modeled after the plan of Political Economy 6 or 8 for the discussion of this subject, not merely in its economic but also in its political or constitutional bearings. In default of this the University, or perhaps the Finance Club might secure some publicist or specialist to give a course of public lectures during this winter or next winter upon this general topic. Such a course upon such a subject would insure an attentive audience...
...study takes three years to complete. The term opens in the middle of November and ends the first of August. The subjects taught are paleography, languages, bibliography, diplomacy, political, administrative and judiciary institutions; civil and canon law of the middle ages. Such a school is a heaven for the specialist in any of these subjects. The instructors are all eminent men, and the number of students is so limited that each and all of them come in direct contact with the lectures...
...academic year causes the student much unsatisfactory deliberation, while the advice which is ordinarily given at this period is even, if possible, of a still more unsatisfying nature. We hear on the one hand the accusation of superficiality and on the other the equally disagreeable taunt of being a specialist. We see one man, confident in the training afforded by the classics and the study of mathematics, elect these studies alone for his college course with the anticipation of emerging from the dust of the college furrow with a brain so beneficently trained and strengthened that it will unable...
...frequently used with a great deal of effect nowadays; and yet we think that there is much to be said in favor of smattering in knowledge. Reproach can properly attach to the smatterer only when in the arrogance of half-knowledge, he attempts judgments only open to the specialist. Every man to a certain extent must be a smatterer. It may be necessary to lessen the preponderance of time given to the classics in a liberal education. This many are ready to admit. But that the common ground of studies prior to the college course should be altogether broken...
...correspondence resulting from your article of February 8 upon "Our Ranking System" has not already proceeded far enough to be wearisome to your readers, I should like to explain to your correspondent of February 13, the use I made, in your issue of February 11, of the words specialist and superficialist. Your correspondent questions my right to use the words as I did, in raising the remarkable question whether "a man who is not a specialist must be a superficialist." I certainly did not intend to say that a man who does not devote his attention to one subject only...