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Philology is the study of a lifetime, constantly developing and discovering new fields for work. The foundations on which it is built lie far back in the mist of ages, and speculation, to a certain extent, is the guide to our results. It is therefore interesting to find among our modern tongues a family of languages whose origin, growth, and development lie within human observation, even within the records of the past two thousand years...
THERE will doubtless be some opposition, on the part of the alumni, to the proposed transfer of Commons to Memorial Hall, on the ground of its being a profanation of the, to a certain extent, sacred character of the Hall. But, in answer to this, let us consider the true purpose of the building. It was to perpetuate the memory of the sons of Harvard who perished in the war; but are they more honored in building a grand but useless pile, than in making their monument of some real benefit to the College? It were better to build...
Although these reforms are only experiments as yet, their advantages seem great enough, with certain modifications, to warrant their continuance, and to give strong argument in favor of the assertion, "experiments never go backward...
...point of view, and have not formed their conclusions from the reports of the instructors themselves. The influence for good attendant on such inspection of the College is very positive in its effects. It is almost inevitable, even with the best instructors, that, through long service, they fall into certain mechanical methods of teaching, of which they are not themselves aware, but which are injurious in the extreme to the student, and can only be detected by a man from the outer world. The really striking and important points of a subject - those which, if pointed out with enthusiasm, would...
...view of education which regards it as means to an end, and not as an end in itself, has resulted in a demand for special education. The same spirit which keeps from college the young men intended for business pursuits, even in college requires them to follow certain studies as a preparation for their particular vocation in life; thus regarding man as a mere machine whose chief function is the getting of his daily bread, and not as a mind of infinite capabilities to be developed symmetrically in all its energies. As the report wisely remarks, a general education "instead...