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More hastily, Senator Metcalf nodded a relieved assent. The Vice President struck the untraditional telegram from the record. Senator Reed proceeded leisurely to teach Senator Metcalf that, before sending to the clerk such a letter or telegram, the recipient confers with the Senator attacked?to teach him other lessons in the traditions of a most traditional Chamber...
...University of Pennsylvania stood out as offering to teach most about the native letters of its country?five undergraduate and six graduate courses...
...rest of the number is given to "belles lettres": to verse, short tales, editorials, and book notices. In the best of these one seems to observe a healthy respect for the great virtue of literary economy. It looks as if the young American writers were inclined to teach it hereafter to your formidable Press; at least so it may be hoped. There are two neat short stories, one of which, called "The First of the Month," precedes, by way of hors d'oeuvres, that solid repast, the 'Report'; the second, also neat, and more difficult in theme, is "Musk...
...Church. But when organized religion breaks down, as it now has in the case of many students, the conditions are changed. The college is then confronted with a new problem, namely, that of enabling the student to work out a rational view of life which accords with the teachings of science but which also takes into account those higher truths of character which science cannot teach. For the latter the student must go to philosophy. A course in philosophy is therefore the natural complement of a course in science...
...present time when organized religion has ceased to command the allegiance of a large number of students, it becomes urgently necessary that the college teach the business of life in all its aspects. The committee recommends, therefore, that a course in Philosophy be made a requirement for distinction without the alternative of Mathematics...