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...degrees entered Hopkins Hall and took their places. President Gilman's address to the students graduating urged that they should encourage popular education, doing what they could to advance the interest of the common school; that they should be interested in politics, have opinions, scan principles, and not stand aloof because of the cry against parties or politicians; that they should be afraid of error, never be afraid of truth, and never suffer themselves to speak with disdain of faith, for this is the beginning and the end of all science...
...antiquated state of the common college curriculum, and of the course of preparatory study at school." The sciences are recommended early in the course and "English should be studied from the beginning of school life to the end of college life." It is only right that the classics should stand on their own merits. "It is not the proper business of universities to force subjects of study, or particular kinds of mental discipline upon unwilling generations." "Finally, the enlargement of the circle of liberal arts may be justly urged on the ground that the interests of the higher education...
...name of but one member, all honor to him for it, is to be found on the roll, we have no reason to be discouraged with the year's work. Since all that the society requires of a man is to take his place in the ranks and then stand, our influence must be largely in proportion to our numbers, and we, therefore, most earnestly invite all men of total abstinence principles to at least give the league the weight of their names...
...number of the New Englander contains a lengthy discussion of the secret society system of Yale. In this article the writer takes a firm stand in favor of the present system, and invokes the public to judge whether "when the good name of the university is draggled in the mire by her own sons, these reformers should be held to prove their damaging charges, or else, be silenced with the deserved contempt which awaits men who have not hesitated intentionally or unintentionally to compromise the innocent." These somewhat strong expressions have been evoked by the increasing frequency with which...
...upon the pleasing prospects for young graduates: "The announcements of approaching college commencements herald another harvest of baccalaureates, doctors and lawyers. There is no need to ask what is to become of them. The professions, like horse-cars, have always room for one more, though some will have to stand or simply cling on as best they can. A goodly number of these coming graduates, like too many that have gone before them, are, no doubt, strongly impressed with a sense of their utility or their singular fitness for life in what they regard as the more civilized portion...