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...excess of the number which came out last night. The fact that the men who did come out seem to be a fairly promising lot does not alter the matter. Ninety-five must wake up to the fact that the college expects to see every class do its very utmost in all departments of the college life. The time for indifference in anything has gone by. The true Harvard man is he who is working unceasingly with hands, head and heart for his class and for the college...
Holden Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity yesterday afternoon at half past one o'clock when the students met to take some action on the death of Adelbert Shaw. The meeting was called to order by A. J. Cumnock '91, who called upon P. D. Trafford, L. S., to read a letter which the committee which called the meeting had prepared to send to Shaw's family. The letter was as follows...
...second gift is the system of education for the purpose of acquiring not mere knowledge, but the power to use our faculties to the utmost. It is in just this point that a college education is apt to be wanting, and it is for just this point that Harvard has made a stand. At Harvard first of all colleges was abandoned the time-honored custom of requiring certain passages from the classics for admission. Now the stress is laid mostly on the ability to translate at sight. This was a substitution of a test of power for a test...
...University this individualization has taken the form of conferences and seminaries. In nearly all of the western schools the laboratory system has been to a great extent adopted. Individualization is bound to produce good results; for what both the individual and the community need is the development to the utmost of each man's capacity...
...these cities President Eliot was given several receptions; and the president spoke at all the dinners held by the various Harvard clubs in his honor. He and Mrs. Eliot were received with the utmost cordiality everywhere. For the president, however, the trip was not purely for pleasure. He took the opportunity to make a careful study of the educational institutions and systems of the west, to compare them with our own methods, and to make general Investigations for the interest of Harvard. At the many public lectures which he gave, he invariably spoke on some educational topic, connected with...