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...most elementary character. Next comes the realschule for commercial, and the gymnasium for more classical education. Certain lines of employment are restricted to those who pass the final examinations in these schools. Probably the most perfect public educational system in the world is in Switzerland. A third of the whole taxation revenue is devoted to the schools, besides the fee paid for each child. There is a primary school in every commune; attendance is compulsory. Above these schools there is an ascending series of higher schools up to the schools of industry, leading to the Polytechnic School...
...large and appreciative audience in Sever, last night, Dr. Royce gave the third of his series of lectures on the "Religious Aspect of Philosophy." This lecture considered especially the world outside of man. Science assumes that this world is a vast whole, under the control of physical forces; an immense succession of phenomena, every one of which could have been predicted from all eternity by a mind powerful enough to know and to use some exact universal formula. Has such a world any religious aspect? The answer suggested by science is often stated thus: The world shows us universal evolution...
...America, a student selects the university in which he expects to find the best general efficiency, in which he sees the best scholarship in all the departments, not the one in which some one department may be of surpassing worth and the others of inferior merit. On the whole, the American system in this respect is to be preferred, unless a man desires to study a specialty. It should be the aim of a university first to make all its departments thorough and scholarly and then to collect the brilliant men of the country around the nucleus already formed...
...send herewith a table showing the total amount of money subscribed by each class: '83, $457; '84, $866; '85, $691; '86, $492; sp. st., $15; S. S., $20; L. S., $20; anon., $5. This makes the total amount subscribed $2573.50. Last year the total amount subscribed during the whole year was $3958.50, and even this was found insufficient to meet the expenses. At least $2000 more of subscriptions will be needed this year, and I must again urge all to subscribe as liberally as they can when called on. I remain very respectfully...
...resolved that insomuch as the gentleman concerned in the affair of last Sunday had voluntarily withdrawn from the hall, the board of directors would take no action with regard to him. Also that a committee of two be appointed to investigate the whole affair, and take such action, subject to the approval of the board, as seems...