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Volapuk, or Volapyk, is a word that one frequently hears in these days, and all who pretend to keep up with the topics of the time should thoroughly understand the aims and rights of this "world-language...
...proposed lectures of Mr. Charles Waldstein on Greek Archaeology, form a connected whole, and cover a field where interesting facts presented in an interesting manner are rarely to be found. These lectures present a vivid future of ancient life, which both classical students and others may readily understand and appreciate, while the comparison of Roman, Greek, and Assyrian Archaeology, as given by the distinguished scholars who lecture before us, forms a valuable study which none of us will again be able to follow. The students of Harvard are to be congratulated on possessing such an unrivalled opportunity for considering this...
Daniel Pratt, the great American traveller, is back again and entertained an interested audience of students on the steps of Memorial Hall yesterday. The subject of his dissertation was "Do ministers understand what they know...
...understand that Dr. Charles Waldstein, curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, has been offered the post of first permanent director of the American School at Athens, to take office as soon as the endowment shall have been sufficiently subscribed to secure his salary. Towards this en-endowment the University of the City of New York has promised $1,000, and the Pennsylvania University has given the proceeds of its recent performance in New York of "The Acharnians" of Aristophanes in the original Greek. The building of the American School at Athens is now rising by the side...
...This moral authority is what the new education seeks. As the elective principle is essentially ethical, its limitations, if helpfully congruous, must be ethical too. They must be simply the means of bringing home to the young chooser the sacred conditions of choice, which conditions, if I rightly understand them, may compactly be entitled those of intentionality, information, and persistence. Many assert also that boys come to college with no clear intentions, not knowing what they want, waiting to be told. It is true. The majority of the freshmen whom I have known in the last seventeen years have been...