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...Cornell University to the position of Professor of Physical Culture and Hygiene. The Professor will arrive in a few days, and the large gymnasium, recently erected, will be filled with the best gymnastic apparatus. It is probable compulsory gymnastics will be required of the two lower classes, following the system in vogue at Amherst...
...bright boys! good boys! There is in them the making of new Madisons, Jeffersons, Calhouns, Clays! We need such men in the South! We need them in Louisiana above all! And we have the boys there to become such men, only they lack the educational resources. The common school system of the State is defective. When I made my first donations towards establishing the university I was not aware the property so given would be taxed. Such treatment of property given for such purposes is unheard of in the North. Look at Princeton College! It has had millions of dollars...
...public opinion to sustain its claim. While it is about it, it might make its challenge a little broader so as to take in Oxford and Cambridge, and institutions of learning in the moon and other planets, so as to be able to claim the championship of the solar system, which is more honorable than a mere American championship, and quite as easy if championship can be got without beating anybody. Still, merely as a matter of taste, perhaps it would be as well to beat somebody before claiming the championship. [Times...
...occasions the unruly element, which may be presumed to exist in any body of a thousand young men, is kept in control by the powerful sentiment of the great majority, which has proved a far more effective instrument for the maintenance of good order and gentlemanly conduct than the system of minute regulations formerly in force. The college library has received an accession of 8441 books during the year, and the university library, which includes the other, 9818, making the total numbers now in the library 277,700 volumes and 228,856 pamphlets...
...discuss the question of college government in the following terms: "The plan of the college is of great importance; but of still greater importance, practically, is the question of its theory and methods in its relations with students, their discipline in conduct and study. There are two opposing systems. The one considers the student still a boy, hedges him about with close paternal government, stimulates him with merit-marks for successful study, and punishes him with demerits for ill-conduct; ranks him by examinations, rewards him with prizes dependent on his marks, and sends him out with a certificate...