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This discussion has a special interest for us who are students. The evils of the present system of examinations are evidently not so developed here as in England; but the system has always been recognized as a possible source of danger in the encouragement it lends to work for rank only. The student of shallow principles and superficial attainments often forgets not only that knowledge is the first object of education, but that honesty is a necessary constituent in the character of a gentleman. Some things are best perceived through their influence upon the objects about them. We know that...
...candidates for the Mott Haven team have been divided into squads for the special work they are to take up. The sprinters will be under the charge of Kulp, of the Medical School; the long-distance runners under Hulme,'89; the jumpers and pole-vaulters under Webster, who won the high jump at the intercollegiate games last year; the shot and hammer men under Bowser...
...many directions. Although the curator was not able, owing to the uncertainty of his movement, to carry on the usual researches at the Newport laboratory, still several representatives of the Museum availed themselves of the privileges of the Government Fish Commission station at Wood's Holl. Considerable material for special research was sent to several well-known scholars of zoology, and a few exchanges were effected...
...only special training for citizenship that our colleges can give must be found in these departments of history and economics, and the need of this training becomes more and more evident as our national problems become more intricate and more clearly problems to be solved by students and not by enthusiasts. The value of such training for women becomes more and more evident as their opinion and judgment are now being so rapidly brought to bear upon public questions...
...department, Mr. H. C. Badger has gone over the maps of the World, Europe with subdivisions, Russian and Asia Minor, in preparing the titles for printing. He has also made a special grouping of the plans of the property of the University, including those estates which belonged to Harvard at any time...