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The new system is asserted to be a system. Students under it are still under bonds, "bonds more compulsive than the old, because fitted with nicer adjustment to each one's person. . . . It remains authoritative, . . . . it insists on that authority which reveals to a man his own better purposes, and...
In the chapter on the "Disciplinary Power of Political Economy," Professor Laughlin has given a very clear and concise statement of the effect of this study upon the development of the mind. Exactness, clearness, and directness of statement are cultivated. The imagination, too, plays an important part. The logical powers...
The two above mentioned dangers of self-satisfaction and of mental backsliding are not, it is true, very great for those intending to study in any of the professions, law, medicine, or ministry, or even for those who aim to an active business life, or at teaching. The prospective professional...
Finally, let everyone realize that at the age of graduation from college the mind rests easily and can ill afford to be neglected, and that if no immediate activity of mind, in study for a profession, or in teaching, or in business, is looked forward to, it is far better...
"President Porter's subject was 'How can the preparatory schools co-operate more effectively with the colleges.' In Germany, the system of teaching is regulated by law, its methods prescribed by the government, and the preparatory schools and universities necessarily brought into harmony, and for all practical purposes they are...