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One of the great principles of commercial life is to avoid as far as possible all competition; but the ranks of all the professions, from law to medicine, and to the ministry, are so well filled, in this country, that it takes an exceptionally gifted man to raise himself above...
The college will welcome the course of lectures announced in the last University Calendar. It is hard to conceive of subjects that would appeal to the interest of college men more than the professions, law, ministry, medicine, journalism, teaching. Let us hope that every one of these professions is to...
President McCosh, of Princeton, in reply: "There is an increasing tendency to leave out religion in the teaching of our colleges, and as a consequence the character of the highly educated men who graduate from our colleges and erect such a powerful influence on the community is becoming irreligious. It...
The remedies proposed by the correspondent are first and foremost, a recognition of the fact that there are good and bad methods of teaching, and that the post graduate study of pedagogy should be encouraged. The instructors should be chosen for their power to teach, and not entirely for what...
Perhaps the most interesting, or at least the most significant, of these subjects are those from Cornell and Johns Hopkins. The establishment of a professorship in the "science and art of teaching" deserves notice. Because so many go into this profession, we may wonder that the colleges of the country...