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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Kent, '82, is a contributor to the current number of Life...
...passage in an article in the current Harper's Monthly written by Wong Chin Foo, the editor of the Chinese newspaper published in New York, gives a very shrewd comment upon the idea of education that prevails among Americans. "We have heard of young men in this country," says Mr. Foo, drily, "who have graduated in three or four years at most, and who were regarded as having finished their education, who in fact considered themselves educated to a degree of proficiency beyond which further study were superfluous. In China there is no fixed time for graduating, no limit...
...countries in which it does exist. All civilized societies in our day tend to the commercial type, and more and more adopt the commercial standards and tests. Consequently we see no chance of introducing it here, and, though it is everybody's duty not to drift idly with the current, it is sheer waste of strength to try and row dead against it. The people, or perhaps we should rather say the farmers of the United States, who are not used to handling or spending large sums of money, have been making a gallant effort daring the last three-quarters...
...current number of Harper's Weekly contains portraits of Profs. G. M. Lane and W. W. Goodwin...
...current number of the Atlantic contains an interesting sketch entitled "Emerson in the Lecture Room." It is filled with reminiscences of his lectures at Harvard...