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...comparing the curricula of the various colleges in respect to the amount of space occupied by the ancient languages, it is very difficult to reach an exact conclusion. The reason for this is that whereas two courses, may be labelled, say, "Athenian Tragedy," one of them may take up twelve plays and another six: or of two courses in Roman Satire one, may include about twice as much as the other. Therefore, when one discovers that Princeton has 12 courses in Greek, Dartmouth 10, Yale 9, Cornell 8, Columbia 7, Williams 6, and Harvard 5, it is hard to draw...
...fact that in this particular case, a managership is giving way before scholarship is not of great moment. Other extra curricula activities, different from the football managership only in that they are less in the public eye, have, no doubt, suffered the same fate in recent years. The teams, too, have not been immune from the added attraction which the tutorial system, better reading facilities, more capable instructors, or whatnot seem to be lending to what was formerly considered the exclusive preserve of the uncongenial grind...
...undergraduate concerns the purpose of his presence for four years at an institution of higher learning. Some general agreement can be secured on the thesis that a full college life consists of several different phases, many of them highly to be desired. Formerly, extra curricula activities were the phase which not only predominated, but actually excluded scholarship. The tendency of late has been in the opposite direction, as the decreased interest in each and every form of activity shows...
Charles Eliot Norton was one of the most famous characters of "old Cambridge." The unique and forceful personality that made him one of the greatest of nineteenth century teachers and a triumphant torchbearer in the elevation of fine arts to a high place not only in educational curricula but in public esteem put his name among those of Harvard's best-known sons, where it will long be secure. Changing Cambridge has long since swept away "Norton's Woods," and not even the name remains to designate the residential district across Kirkland Street. But Harvard, and the educational and artistic...
...courses are offered for students of limited means and are conducted in the same way as those regularly given in the curricula of the cooperating institutions. The work, beginning during the last week in September, continues into the month of May, with vacancies at Christmas, Midyears and Easter, the period of instruction covering 30 weeks. Credit is given towards the degree of Associate in Arts at Harvard, Tufts, Wellesley, and Radcliffe...