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From my seat in this college I am asked by experienced fathers, men of business, to try to determine whether a youth of eighteen shall be directed to take a course of ancient or modern languages. And I do think that I overstate the matter when I say that over sixty per cent. of the parents and nearly all of the students are utterly unable to determine for what profession the youth is best fitted...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- Though the arrangements in the college library have reached such a state of perfection, that it is not frequent that any complaint can be found with them, still I think that there is one matter which might be improved upon. This is in regard to the new books. By the present arrangements, a new book can be out, and kept out for the regular time of four weeks; yet, I think, there is a much greater demand for new books, than for any other. Now it seems to me that the arrangement which, I am given...
Professor Sumner of Yale said recently to an interviewer: "I have examined with great care the new Harvard scheme, and I think it an admirable scheme. It is judicious, and marks an important step in the improvement of university education...
...myself what must be the theory on which my friend Snodkins has worked. Here are his notes,- but how do they disclose the principles of Political Economy? The subject itself is not touched upon, but nevertheless I feel in a distinctly political-economical mood; I am led to think of Mill, Cairnes, Walker and Richards, and of their overpowering ideas. But how? At last I find an explanation; I am forced to a realization of the power of the association of abstract ideas and principles with physical, that is, tangible surroundings. The success, then, of Snodkins' method of taking notes...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Although there have been many clubs lately formed in college, of which my class has formed several, I think there is still room for another one. The American Ornithologist's Union has lately issued appeals throughout the country for facts concerning the migration of different birds, among them our most familiar visitors. An ornithologist's club here could do a good deal in the way of observation, could gain many interesting facts concerning the fauna of the neigh borhood; and its collections either of nests and eggs, or of skins, would prove a welcome addition...