Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Club of New York, he states, in a very clear and definite way, the disadvantages of our present elective system. He endeavors to show that the step which Harvard took in throwing open the electives to freshmen was premature. As we have no system of school education in America which brings young fellows of eighteen or nineteen to that point of maturity in thought, and to that extent of general academical knowledge which is reached by the German gymnasia, he argues that it is, in part at least, the duty of an American University to complete this academical training...
...development. From all this, it must be perfectly patent to every unprejudiced mind that the German student, at nineteen or twenty years of age, is more competent to make his own selections in the matter of study than we are with our imperfect and uneven intellectual training here in America...
...country as much as Mexico or Russia; her sympathies are divided, not between Canada and the United States, but between England and France. The French portion of the race are simple, ignorant folk, under the absolute domination of their rulers, - the priests; were they to attend any colleges in America they would probably go to the great Roman Catholic colleges, like Notre Dame, and Seton Hall; the English Canadians, on the other hand, are furious loyalists, affect a lofty scorn for the "States," and send their boys when they can afford it, to the great English universities. I think...
...coinage of gold and silver is especially valuable, presenting in graphic form the yield of the mines in each of the periods in the world's history marked by any unusual increase of one or the other metal, and also of the whole period from the discovery of America to the present time . . . Incidentally, Professor Laughlin demolishes the most distinctive portion of the work of Mr. Dana Horton - that relating to the supposed disturbance of the equilibrium of the precious metals by the Bank of England's resumption in 1819 - and gives the reader a strong impression of the superficiality...
...want of support by any sect. It appears to be indifferent to religion. There is a fallacy in these assertions. One may enthusiastically believe doctrine, and yet be opposed to forcing it upon another. Religious liberty does not mean that interest in religion is extinguished. A national college in America must be tolerant. In all colleges students should be taught to respect the forms of religion as well as religion itself. A fruitful source of irreligion is mutual denunciation among sects. Nobody knows how to teach morality effectively without religion. In the classroom the teachers can demonstrate that science...