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...confess to having used our scissors rather freely in making up the article entitled, "Philadelphia's Provincialism," which appears on another page. But the subject is so ably presented by the writer to the Nation that it had been folly for us to attempt to better it. Of course to college men the subject has interest chiefly because of its relations to college life and influence, for Philadelphia's provincialism seems to be attributed in a very large measure to the policy of the University of Pennsylvania, the chief educational institution in that district. The name "University" is made...
After discussing the subject in its political, social, and moral and religious aspects, the same writer continues: 'It may be said, 'Why criticise the workings of one and the same principle in these different departments, without suggesting a remedy?' It would be almost impossible to name a remedy that should have any immediate effect in the cases mentioned. It must be a long time before renewed vitality creeps into the nerves and muscles of a patient who is 'run down.' But there is one department where a change of present policy might have much direct effect upon the life...
...advanced as Harvard may be, if viewed in the light of the many preparatory schools which are called colleges, we are still further distanced by the great university systems which exist abroad. The following clipping from a correspondent in the New York Nation throws additional light upon the subject...
...idea is, of course, an excellent one and has often been pleaded for, and sometimes with skill and enthusiasm, and by men eminently qualified to speak of the subject; as by President White, of Cornell, before the National Educational Association in 1874. But the plan, I fear, will never be successfully carried out before another thing is done. What we need as yet is not so much the university as the student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive...
SOPHOMORE THEMES.Sophomore theme V will be due on Thursday, Dec. 17. Subject: A Description...