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...education which shall fit into a man's life and work in this age, and help him to be of use to society as well as to make the most of himself. Such an education must be to a degree a suggestive one; it must teach a man how to think even more than what to think, and must from its very nature abandon the old rut of thought. The favor with which the "new subjects" are received shows plainly how undergraduate feeling is disposed toward them. Men at college fully realize the nature of the times into which they...
...news to many students of the present day that Harvard once boasted as large, as fully manned and one may say a much more realistic navy than any of the establishments which now are in full swing among the two hundred colleges which are trying to teach the youthful mind how to shoot. Those Harvard students in the year 1776 who yearned after a nautical, or rather a piratical life and the salt of the ocean met together in that year and formed what was then called a "Navy Club." and later earned for itself the title of the "Harvard...
...rumored that some of the present instructors will not teach at Harvard after this year...
...Walter Camp, the graduate in structor, and supervisor of field sports at Yale, does not turn out a success in every branch of athletics. He was engaged last fall to coach, not only the foot-ball eleven and base-ball nine, but also to teach the men track athletics. In the first two branches he was known to be an expert and made satisfactory progress in his work. A few days ago, the men interested in track athletics began to appear on the field, and Mr. Camp undertook to take them in hand and give them instruction. According...
...first day to edit the entire paper. Charles Dudley Warner, well known as an author and correspondent, says: "There is a sort of editorial ability, of facility, of force, that can only be acquired by practice, and in the newspaper office; no school can ever teach it; but the young editor who has a broad basis of general education, of information in history, political economy, the classics and polite literature has an immense advantage over the man who has merely practical experience...