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"In accordance with the tendency of the French to throw overboard everything of historic development to suit some rationalistic theory, the faculties of their universities have logically become purely institutes for instruction-special schools, with definite regulations for the course of instructions developed and quite distinct from those institutions which...
A special feature in the organization of French universities consists in the fact that the position of the teacher is quite independent of the favors of his hearers; the pupils who belong to his faculty are generally compelled to attend his lectures, and the far from inconsiderable fees which they...
Adrien Jacquinot, assistant professor of French in the university, died of pneumonia in Cambridge on Friday night between 9 and 10 o'clock after a three days' illness. Mr. Jacquinot was born at Darnay in the province of Vosges, France. His family belonged to what is known as the magistrate...
A passage in an article in the current Harper's Monthly written by Wong Chin Foo, the editor of the Chinese newspaper published in New York, gives a very shrewd comment upon the idea of education that prevails among Americans. "We have heard of young men in this country," says...
In fact, poverty and very plain living are things which, as has been wittily observed about mariages de raison everybody thinks good for other people, but which hardly anybody thinks good for himself. It does not follow from all this that a life of luxury or of devotion to money...