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Under the above title, President Eliot, in an essay published in this month's Century, says: "To the list of studies which the sixteenth century called liberal, I would therefore add, as studies of equal rank, English, French, German, History, Political Economy and Natural Science, not one of which can...
Recent statistics show the cost of living at German universities, notwithstanding the fact that the Germans are becoming fonder of spending money then they once were, is still very low as compared with that in America. Rent, food and clothes are all cheap, and there is not the fashion, as...
An '83 Harvard student ridicules the idea that unequal development is produced by training for specialties. In answer to the charge he refers to the prominent college athletes in the different branches, and adds they are almost without exception healthy, and well-developed men. Athletes are beginning to see that...
Some obscurity rests over the earliest history of the Edinburgh foundation, but a positive date is reached, April 24, 1852, when King James VI. signed a charter giving power to the town council of Edinburgh to provide for higher education in humanity and in the tongues, in philosophy, theology, medicine...
The key to education must be in the line of altruism, teaching men to go outside and stay outside themselves. It is not safe to start the intellectual life in the study of physical science; education should begin with the humanities.