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...Cobden Club, of England, offer a silver medal, under the auspices of the Harvard Finance Club, to any present under-graduate of Harvard College for the best essay on some economic subject...
...much to be regretted that Prof. Lanman has been unable this year, through lack of time, to give the course of lectures on Buddhism announced in the catalogue. This subject has, of late, been receiving special attention among scholars, and the results of their investigations would be of great interest just now to the great majority of students. Every one who heard Prof. Lanman's lectures on the Vedas last year will well understand what he has lost by the omission this year of this course on Buddhism. We are glad to see that the course is announced for next...
...hours. The corporation wisely foresaw that, if no such restriction were enacted, students would be constantly treated with the utmost inconsideration by some professors whose sole aim in examinations is not to discover what the student may know, but to impress on him how absolutely little knowledge of the subject he possesses. The more he succeeds in convincing the student that he is groping in absolute ignorance, the more satisfaction does he seem to take unto himself. This rule the authorities have enacted and it is their duty to see that it is rigidly enforced. Yesterday, during the examination under...
...fact is that the scholar does not always appear well in politics. Take the government of our schools and colleges. The organization is imperfect. They are controlled too often by private animosities, family interests and compacts, and every form of nepotism, or may become subject to this power of a boss, so that they are not better nor worse than the powers of administration at Washington. Take the organization of the school at Andover, where an old and learned faculty and a large and respectable body of trustees are subject, on the most critical questions, to a board of three...
...Emerton will resume during the year 1882 - 3 his course on the study and use of historical sources once a week; subject, "The Relations of Church and State in the Middle Ages." The hour will be selected to meet the convenience of students...