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That so large a part of general conversation in America relates to the weather, to politics, and to sport, is not so much because these things are intrinsically more interesting or variable than in other countries, as because they are among the few subjects that everyone is familiar with and can talk about. Professional learning is, no doubt, cultivating, but standing alone, it is not culture, for the reason that it is circumscribed and includes only a narow part of the stream of thought. For a lawyer to look through the microscope of a man of science increases his means...
...acquaintance with many other subjects, so that both go along together, the professional training supplying the backbone of the college curriculum? This is a much more subtle, if not a more difficult, question, and it is one that we must actually face, because it involves a strong existing tendency among American colleges. Again the answer to it is found only in practical experience. Professional study leading to a man's career in life is, and ought to be, almost passionately absorbing in comparison with other subjects pursued at the same time. These are apt to be regarded as of lesser...
...their general studies before the professional ones. In short, there is much to be said for separating the work of college and professional schools. It follows also that the course in the college ought to cover a number of different subjects, together with a somewhat thorough study of one among them. What that one should be will vary with the personal aptitude of the student. In my own opinion, it is better, as a general rule, that it should not be too closely akin to the subject which will engross attention in the chief occupation of life; because any direct...
...Advocate is the oldest College publication, and aims to encourage literary work among undergraduates. It prints short stories, poems, and a few articles. It is published every two weeks. The work of the business composition consists of the usual procuring of advertisements and subscriptions, and the general business management of the paper...
...Treasurer of the College announced at a recent meeting of the Corporation the receipt of gifts amounting to $155,601.74. This sum includes certain of the gifts announced by the President on Commencement Day, i.e. the gift of the class of 1890 of $80,000. Among the larger new gifts and bequests is $25,000 from the estate of William Endicott '87, the income to be used for the purposes of the Cancer Commission of the University; $23,250 from the estate of Julia M. Moseley, also for the work of the Cancer Commission in the City of Boston...