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...varied with music sung by the choir and a double quartette from '84. The Baccalaureate hymn was written by C. C. Zeigler, '84, and was sung to the music of America. The sermon lasting about half an hour, followed. The preacher, Dr. Phillips Brooks, took for his subject, "Character, the link between life and knowledge," which he treated in his usual happy manner...
...Beta Kappa. Harvard Chapter. Business meeting. Boylston Hall, west lecture room, 10 A. M. Oration by Prof. R. C. Jebb of Glasgow. Subject : "Ancient Organs of Public Opinion." Sanders Theatre...
...Yale requires neither French nor German for admission, and "no instructor is provided in either language before the beginning of the junior year." Columbia compels her juniors to attend two exercises a week in political economy for half the year, and at Brown juniors and seniors may elect the subject for two hours a week, the one a half, the other a whole year. While the eleventh century thought it had a permanent curriculum in "Lingua, tropus, ratio, numerous, tonus, augulus, astra," history proves that the staples of education have changed, and reason says still more clearly that they must...
...almost useless to another. Hence, to make a university training more practical, the opportunities for the pursuit of different studies and different branches of studies must be multiplied. This is brought about by the elective system which allows a man to devote himself to one special subject which will be extremely practical to him, but to another anything but practical. Thus the wider the elective system is extended the more practical becomes the education which any college can offer. With the elective system and the various schools connected with our university, such as the Law, Medical and Scientific, together with...
...speaking thus at length on the subject of cheering, it is unnecessary to tell a Harvard audience that the uproarious scenes which have recently been enacted at New Haven, instead of being an honor to the nine, would be a disgrace to them and the college, and that unfair applause has never been met with by those opponents who have played us here in Cambridge. Harvard, if necessary, can bear defeat, but the college cannot bear that our visitors should feel that there was the slightest tinge of unfairness in their treatment. Let every man, then, give his heartiest support...