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...appears to warrant some notice. I do not know whether the gentleman wrote his epistle in earnest or in fun, but evidently he was not acquainted with the subject concerning which he was writing. The cricket team and base-ball nine are suffering from the same trouble, namely, the want of a professional trainer, and are about on a par with each other in regard to number of victories and defeats. This season they have played two matches against the acknowledged strongest club in New England, coming out creditably in both. The cricket team is not pestering the college...
...college can cause the general adoption of the measure, and as soon as we see that we are not to be helped by the other colleges, we want to be placed on equal terms with them. We have uttered our protest against professionalism, but it seems that we are ahead of our times. We do not believe, however, that the regulation of the faculty should be rescinded, even should Princeton withdraw from her position...
...advantages of the elective system as deduced from both theory and practice, says the New York Times, may be briefly summarized as follows: To the man whose object is general raining, who wants an education only that he may enjoy its broadening influences, the elective system opposes no obstacle; the required system is, if efficiently carried out, equally valuable to this class, but it is not more so. But to that much larger class who want an education to train them for some special calling, or who have a special fondness for some one line of study, the elective system...
...affairs, but we, the students, are also to be censured because we do not take interest enough to demand electives in American history. It cannot be denied that every young American should have more than a school knowledge of his country's history. To disregard it shows a want of pride in our native land and a lack of appreciation of, our ancestors whose trials and labors made us what...
...Johnson, on "College Endowments." The writer asserts that the establishment of small and weak colleges throughout the country has not been a mistake, as is sometimes stated, but has been the means of diffusing the greatest possible amount of learning and intelligence among the many American citizens. "What we want," he says, "is not two or three centres of learning, like Oxford and Cambridge in England, where all young Americans can collect who want more than a common school education, but small colleges scattered broadcast over our three million square miles of territory where a good practical education...