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...full length and widely circulated, would help the cause of Unitarianism; also the Thirty-nine Articles and the Athanasian Creed, or one of Jonathan Edwards' sermons on the delights of the blest in looking over the parapets and viewing the tortures of those in hell, for instance. Regarding the subject of religion and politics, he said that the two are in this country indissolubly associated; that the love of country is the next thing to the love of God, and that during the civil war evidence of the greatest devotion to country was often shown...
...this are the new requirements in regard to the anticipation of a part or the whole of the freshman required course. Both of these changes tend toward the same result - the encouragement of specialties. According to these regulations, a man may anticipate his freshman required work and pursue one subject throughout his college course. The offer of "honors" to special students is also a new feature in the same general line as those just mentioned. Any person can now come to college and avail himself of all the privileges of a regular student without being obliged to take the required...
...readable and interesting discussion of the time-honored subject of the practical value of a college training appeared in a recent number of the London Spectator. Its arguments and illustrations are forcible, convincing and temperate in tone, and, although written more especially for the English public, apply quite as well in America as across the water...
...good deal of respect with the first; but we want to point out a fact or two. One is that the people who, of all others, seek efficiency most, and that often at the direct cost of culture, the Scotch, have long since made up their minds upon the subject. They do not want to be soft-mannered men, or refined men, or refined men, or reflective men, but to be efficient men; yet they hold university training a help, and not a drawback, and except when defeated by want of means or other special circumstances, never fail...
...Alumni might furnish from its officers a small body of trustees to hold class funds, to pay the income of each fund to the order of the class secretary, and to dispose of each fund by fixed rules upon the extinction of the class to which it belonged. This subject is respectfully commended to the attention of the alumni...