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...words "Western editor" and "fortune" that makes it read after the manner of an old fable, still, like an old fable, it has a moral, and it is of this moral that we propose to say a few words. the whole tone of our colleges is, we think, undergoing a considerable change in one respect in particular, namely, the light in which the profession of journalism is regarded. A few days since one of our exchanges made use of some figures to show the difference the last few years have made, and the result was surprising. The same feeling...
...between humane letters on the one hand, and the natural sciences on the other," says Mr. Matthew Arnold, in an article just published in the Manhattan magazine, "the great mankind, all who have not exceptional and overpowering aptitudes for the study of nature, would do well, I cannot but think, to choose to be educated in humane letters rather than in the natural sciences. Letters will call out their being at more points, will make them live more." These words of the great apostle of sweetness and light come to us with peculiar force today, just as Mr. Arnold...
...think the idea is a good one and one that can not fail to be interesting in its results. Every Harvard student, however doubtful he may feel about the presence of forty men-of-letters in this country who are worthy of membership in an American academy, must feel that if such a body is to be chosen by popular vote he should have a voice in the selection. Therefore we call upon our readers to send in lists to us, which we will promptly forward to the Critic. The lists should contain the names of forty American authors...
...reported that Tufts College will support two nines this year. We should think the second nine would give good practice to the freshmen...
...carried away when it is over. To see is often to understand, and if this plan can be carried out with no more or even less trouble than the present one we shall hope to see it adopted. If it should turn out more costly or troublesome than we think, we should not expect the society, which has done so much for us, to undertake anything greater...