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...current Nation contains a very sensible article on the higher education of women, which cannot fail to interest all students who look upon this question with impartial eyes. For however we may attempt to disguise the fact, the question is becoming more and more a vital one for educational institutions. The recent attempt to introduce women into Columbia College is but one of the many indications of the feeling at present pervading the country Although we cannot believe that the experiments at Ann Arbor and Cornell have as yet received sufficient trial to prove the ultimate success of a system...
...announcement in another column that Mr. Taussig will give four lectures covering all the main points in the history of our tariff legislation cannot fail to excite general interest. A question of such national importance, which the doings and report of the late tariff commission have brought so prominently before the country, claims the careful attention of all who are interested in the policy of our government, and these lectures, covering the past and present policy of the country in regard to tariff, will furnish an easy means of getting a good general idea of the subject. The announcement...
...city at least in this country a very general interest is shown in the game. But to one who has seen little of the game the idea of becoming greatly excited over a cricket match seems almost an absurdity. In base-ball one acquainted with the rules cannot fail to be intensely interested in a close game, but in cricket it is not only necessary to know the rules, but one must be able to appreciate the nicety of every stroke of the batsman and of every ball delivered by the bowler. It is a game for which, to thoroughly...
...heretofore been heard against the society has been concerning the delays in the delivery of books. The management hope to obviate this difficulty as far as possible, although they are aware that one of the chief obstacles to the accomplishment of this purpose lies with members themselves, who frequently fail to give sufficient notice to the society of the books desired. Another cause has been the failure of professors to co-operate with the society, and give due notice of books adopted. It would certainly seem now that the society is so firmly established and has received the approval...
Thus, I apprehend, the strictly professional uses of general knowledge fail to justify the grammar school and the art curriculum. Something, indeed, may still be said for the higher grades of professional excellence, and for introducing improved methods in the practice of the several crafts, for which wider outside studies lend their aid. This, however, is not enough; inventors are the exception. In fact, the ground must be widened, and include, secondly, the life beyond the profession. We are citizens of a self-governed country; members of various smaller societies; heads or members of families. We have, moreover, to carve...