Word: variousness
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...class day committee have made up their programme for the day which is modelled closely upon those of former years. The following hours as usual mark the commencement of the various exercises...
...liberal education of today is a far different matter from that of our fathers. The great majority of men in this country who belong to the intellectual professions are not liberally educated. Various reasons may be given for this, but there is no doubt but that "it is also due to the antiquated state of the common college curriculum, and of the course of preparatory study at school." The sciences are recommended early in the course and "English should be studied from the beginning of school life to the end of college life." It is only right that the classics...
...which allows a man to devote himself to one special subject which will be extremely practical to him, but to another anything but practical. Thus the wider the elective system is extended the more practical becomes the education which any college can offer. With the elective system and the various schools connected with our university, such as the Law, Medical and Scientific, together with the Bussey Institute, the facilities for a practical education are far better than a casual observer would suppose...
...that great universities have not, nor from present appearances ever will have, cannot be doubted by the skeptical. One of the most important of these advantages and one that will seriously influence hereafter many who wish a college education in its full sense is the good fellowship in the various classes. If as may occur in time, any small-sized college can offer as good instruction and as great an opportunity to study special branches as the great universities, then there will not be a moment of hesitation in the mind of the future collegian as to which he will...
...indiscriminate assembly. But from whatever cause, the fact remains that the games were miserably advertised. Making a liberal allowance for complimentary and competitors' tickets, the assembly could not have exceeded 1,500. This 1,500 represented the personal friends of the contestants, and graduates and undergraduates of the various colleges, but the 2,300 outsiders, who would have been present if their attention had been called to the meeting, were missing. Not two miles away 5,000 people saw one base-ball match and 4,000 another, while 6,000 attended the horse races, and certainly 4,000 would have...