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...Christian Association has secured the consent of Professor E. C. Moore, of the Divinity School, to lead this year a class which will study the work carried on by the foreign mission boards in the non-Christian countries. This work will be considered in its broadest relations as touching the social and economic conditions of the countries as well as the moral and religious conditions...
...clear to everybody that the success of rowing at Harvard depends on the broadest and most systematic plan of competition that can be produced. The old class crew scheme has proved inadequate, for it cannot possibly begin to handle 500 men and give them all races. The best that the class crew system can do is to provide rowing for twenty or twenty-five men in each class...
...whole situation is the broadest and most thorough scheme of competition that can be devised...
...universityes fit men for practical life?" This arises from the mistaken conception that the purpose of the University is to teach men the useful and practical in life. On the contrary the true object of a university is to educate the minds committed to its charge in the broadest manner possible, to store the mind with knowledge and culture. Like life, the university teaches not directly but by indirection. In after experience with the world a man can build on this broad and sure foundation. It is this general culture which has given to England and the world that most...
...science or literature that are made by our instructors and students, they show that beyond the work that is definitely laid out in the various courses, and constantly inspiring that work, there is an intellectual activity that is making Harvard more and more a centre of learning, in the broadest sense of the term...