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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thus extended; while the evidences of its unquestionable success are by no means few. Again, in many of the departments of study there have been numerous improvements, either from the addition of courses or from changes in instructors, or from more systematic and energetic work on the part of former instructors. Perhaps the English Department illustrates this improvement as well as any. Still the departments of French, German, Political Economy, and History should not go unmentioned. No department can be said to have suffered recession. Advance has been the rule, while retrogradation has been unknown. Finally, with regard...
This recommendation of the overseers should be adopted by all the leading colleges of our land, and in this way, by united action, the tendency to degrade the good old meaning that has been attached to these former exclusive titles of learning can be corrected, and in the end, a standard for conferring the higher degrees established, that will reflect additional honor on the giver, and on the recipient...
...useful type of college student. While a rational and vigorous attention to study is the prime object of a college course, the man who devotes himself to study exclusively, withdrawing himself from all human interest, is quite as mistaken an extremist as he who neglects his studies altogether. The former's science of navigation may be excellent, but if he does not know the sun when he sees it, his ship will fail of a successful voyage all the same. It is for this reason that the names most prominent on the honor list during the college course...
...Howard Seeley, Yale '78, a former editor of the Lit., is about to publish a book of short stories entitled 'A Lone Star, Bopeep, and Other Tales of Texan Ranch Life.' Mr. Seeley has passed considerable time in the southwest, and has become thoroughly familiar with the ranching life of that section. The field upon which he has entered is quite a new one, and his book promises to be peculiarly interesting...
...admission to special study at Harvard should be raised. If there is one college in the land which presents to its special students less advantages than to the regularly matriculated students that college is Harvard. The enormous increase of courses presented to the regular students over those presented in former years, or those at present presented at other colleges leaves no loop-hole for excuse as to individual tastes and talents which might be better fostered by a special rather than by a regular collegiate course. While special study at a large university will always offer a high premium...