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...educational system of France is entirely under the control of the general government. National support and minute classification are the chief characteristics of the system. The teachers are trained in government colleges and are paid fixed salaries. The schools are divided into three grades - primary, intermediate and collegiate. The baccalaureate degree is usually reached at the age of eighteen, and then follows special instruction for any profession. The daily routine is prescribed by the government and the students are always under the supervision of the instructors. In Germany every child is compelled by law to be instructed by some...
...student selects the university in which he expects to find the best general efficiency, in which he sees the best scholarship in all the departments, not the one in which some one department may be of surpassing worth and the others of inferior merit. On the whole, the American system in this respect is to be preferred, unless a man desires to study a specialty. It should be the aim of a university first to make all its departments thorough and scholarly and then to collect the brilliant men of the country around the nucleus already formed...
...this is closely allied to a conservative and, in many cases, an exclusive spirit. I believe that innovations are more easily brought about at Harvard than they are here. In no place is the system of severely exclusive fraternities more completely in vogue than at the University of Michigan. They are not, as at Yale, mere class affairs, nor, as at Harvard, secret orders, but are institutions of profound importance to the individual in his college career and to the customs of the student community. The great question of the student's first year here is "what fraternity shall...
During the last three years this carefully defined system of parties has given rise to some lively elections, in which much money and time were wasted. One election is said to have cost over two hundred dollars, and another, to my certain knowledge, cost over one hundred and twenty-five. The number of voters are usually large and the majorities small. One election started, after some pairing, at one hundred and eight to one hundred and eight and three scattering, and remained in that locality for nine hours, during which all manner of devices were resorted to by both sides...
There are usually campaign committees and a complete machine, including the bosses which the democratic won't-be-bulldozed spirit naturally breeds. Any one who has a penchant for working in practical politics can get a very fair sample of it here, and in that respect the system may be valuable. Its direct influence upon students and the institution I believe to be bad; yet just at present it is unavoidable, springing from the very nature of things...