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...usual reserve or contingent fund, then such balance shall immediately be paid over by the treasurer of the society to the corporation, to be held by them in trust and suitably invested. The income from such investments shall, by vote of the directors, be devoted to the purchase and free distribution among such members of the society as apply for such aid, of text-books, furniture, or fuel. The treasurer shall keep a special record of all such balances, payments to the corporation, receipt of interest and expenditure of the same, as well as of other cash passing through...
...recent exchange serious objection was made in a lengthy editorial to Harvard's elective system, on the ground that studies like philosophy, etc., were not prescribed, and that a student was free to elect any subject, whether it was adapted to his wants or entirely unsuited for him, and taken merely as an easy course. The elective system no doubt presents many temptations to a student not inclined to work, but, on the other hand, opportunity is given by this system to pursue a course of study calculated to educate one for his future life, whatever...
...half of their salary is continued. The Archaeological Institute has raised the necessary sum to make up the amount required by Dr. Goodwin, and the school will therefore be inaugurated in November. As in the French and German schools the students will be given advantage of our instruction free, but it will be necessary for those seeking admission, to pass a qualifying examination in Greek history, literature and archaeology. The length of the course, in all probability, will also be similar to that of the schools I have named, which is three years." At a meeting to be held...
...nothing, and no American university has absolved itself, as the German university has done, from all responsibility for the moral training and conduct of students; but a university of native growth, which will secure to its teachers an inspiring liberty and an unlimited scope in teaching, offer its students free choice among studies of the utmost variety, maintain a discipline adequate to the support of good manners and good morals, but determined by the quality of the best students rather than of the worst, admit to its instruction all persons competent to receive it, while jealously guarding its degrees...
...particularly its practical and money value, notwithstanding its satisfactory attestation by the world for so many centuries, seems still to furnish an interesting and debatable question for a large number of estimable people, and especially for Americans, to consider and discuss. It will be perhaps impossible ever to entirely free the public mind of a vague prejudice that a college education for a business man is most often a detriment and a waste of time. The indefinite expectations placed in all graduates by other men, and the unreasonable demands made of them in return for their advantages, generally serve...