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...which it could be improved. In the first place we think that it should return to the old custom of having books upon the reserved shelves in the alcove of the reserved shelves in the alcove of the library devoted to the society,-books which bear on the subject offered for discussion and which will be of assistance in the preparation of the arguments. These books can be selected, as before, by a special committee, and should be placed there some time before the debates. To allow the full benefit of such a plan, the questions for discussion...
...course of lectures on topics of general interest outside the classroom. The anniversary of Martin Luther's birthday which occurs today, brought out a suggestion that Prof. Emerton, who is now delivering a course of lectures in Boston, on Luther should be invited to deliver a lecture on that subject before the students of the university. In yesterday's issue we printed an abstract of a lecture by Pres. Porter of Yale which illustrates what we wish. There are dozens of topics which come up every day outside the class room which interest the students and nothing would be pleasanter...
...arrived at even after four years of experiment. It seems somewhat strange, therefore, when we consider how much stress is laid nowadays upon the use of laborsaving devices in departments both of mental and of material labor, that so little attention on the whole is paid to this subject. It can justly be said indeed that many of our courses are but attempts to train the mind in methods of mental labor and of scientific investigation. An outline and a bibliography of a subject is all that often can be attempted in these days of rapid differentiation in departments...
...should therefore think it quite within the province of the college, either by means of any general lectures or printed suggestions on the subject, or through the detailed suggestions of individual instructors in the lecture-room, to endeavor to aid students in acquiring right methods of study...
...offers a large field for criticism. Still we do not see the obscurity so much complained of, the themes are distinct and well developed and at times intertwine to great advantage in the modern fashion invented by Wagner. Gounod's Entr'acte (La Colombe) is remarkably expressive of the subject with its sweetness and freedom of modulation. The Hungarian Rhapsody presents a fine idealization of Hungarian music with its fantastic cadences and its richly colored accompaniments...