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...latest innovation is formidable - in name, at least. The "American University" is the title of a new institution recently chartered in Boston, for the introduction of "an improved system of education." Its objects are primarily "moral." "Its peculiarity consists in recognizing the moral faculties as more important than the intellectual, and entitled to more attention in education. It is claimed that it is as possible to develop virtue by education as to develop intelligence." It is probable that no other city but Boston could have given rise to such a university - with such a name. Harvard men will find...
...effort is being made to establish a fixed salary for the services of the clerk of the United States Supreme Court. The perquisites of this officer last year under the existing system amounted...
...Arnold arboretum passed from the control of the trustees of Harvard College into the custody of Boston, Dec. 30th. The arboretum will be made a leading attraction of the new system of public parks. Boston has purchased Wood's Island, East Boston, over twenty acres in area, for a public park for $50,000. The plan contemplates a park-way one hundred feet wide from Bennington street to the park...
...English department is severely criticised - Prof. Child for his peculiar marking system, "so severe, and so greatly in contrast with that of other instructors that his students are at once placed at a great disadvantage in the struggle for rank, upon which depend college honors, scholarships and other important matters;" and the corporation in general for the inadequacy of its provisions for the teaching of English composition and rhetoric. The article is interesting reading...
...article also contains a very interesting account of the origin of the "Hasty Pudding Club." From the eating of "hasty pudding" he traces the transition to college commons. After an account of some of the scenes of the early "commons" he contrasts the old system with the one of the present-day - Memorial...