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...district system counted among its advocates during the National Convention the ablest men in the country.- Stanwood's Pres. El, chap...
...resignation of President Barnard, Columbia College loses one of the ablest men it has ever had at the head of its governing body. Dr. Barnard has done much to bring the college to its present prosperous condition, having labored hard and faithfully for nearly a quarter of a century in the interests of the institution, whose chief he was. It will be no easy matter for the Board of Trustees to select a worthy successor to the responsible position which Dr. Barnard has been compelled, by ill-health, to vacate. As for the retiring president, he can desire no better...
...University, and especially in the departments that touched philosophical and social subjects. The gift in his memory of the money for the United States History Library at once fills an urgent need in an important branch of study, and forms an appropriate memorial to one of the ablest and most loyal of the younger graduates...
...only method in philosophy which can yield a ground of settled convictions. This method would modernize philosophy, he believes. Now, if we young men are taught anything, it is that we should seek as many independent points of view as possible. It is true that one of the ablest philosophers in Boston recently stated that physiological psychology, for example, is impossible. But in a short time a very able work on physiological psychology was published in this country. It would seem that anything can be that...
...Advocate comes out to-day and the Lampoon came out yesterday. The latter, although deprived of the services of its two ablest designers, is as merry as ever, and the reading matter is unusually clever...