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...administrative detail,--an attempt to centralize functions which it had previously been necessary for three or four persons to perform. There is no intention of eliminating the Faculty from the instructing staff even though we have been so fortunate as to secure a number of National Guard officers to augment our teaching force...
...step, England has promised an immediate introduction of home rule. Expediency, it is asserted, demands some compensation for the Irish sacrifice. There are considerations, however, which tend to deny the efficacy of such a step. To establish home rule means to alienate the sympathies of Ulster and to augment internal dissension within Ireland itself. The British have maintained their reputation as opportunists, but they have sacrificed principle without attaining the hoped-for result...
...undergraduate English has, therefore, a large task before it. To require students who are deficient in their literary expression to take an extra course in English is a doubtful remedy. English A should give a man the requisite fundamental knowledge which a further, uninteresting, dry course would not augment. The objection to English is not in the English courses but in other curriculum departments. The remedy is not in forcing more English down the throats of delinquents, but in making them utilize what they have. Assuming that students who have passed English A have the knowledge necessary to write clearly...
...volumes, besides 360 manuscripts, several belonging to the twelfth century, and a splendid collection of over 350 incunabula. During the existence of the modern university, not very much attention had been devoted to these ancient collections, but during the past dozen years very much has been done to augment the modern part of the library by the addition of scientific and literary works for practical use in university education, in the development of special collections, and in providing reading-rooms. Several years ago the new librarian, Professor Delannoy, however, devoted himself to a complete examination and cataloguing of the more...
...announcement that the Harvard Freshman Debating Club has formally accepted the challenge of the Yale Freshman Union to a joint debate will surely augment the general interest in debating among the members of the freshman class. The Freshman Union has at present about seventy-five members, but the trial debates to choose the Yale representatives will be open to all members of the class whether members of the Union...