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...University of Pennsylvania overlook the fact that the "man" entering college has lived at home long enough not to forget his home and its many charms and beneficial influences, and that he has reached a time of life when his nature, which is but his almost instinctive yearning for freer and broader living, demands something higher and stronger than home influences. The home, it is true, lays the best foundation, but the college makes the best building, and the man whose life is spent entirely at home or whose college life is characterized by a daily dependence on home, will...
...series was continued last night with a consideration of Haydn and Mozart. The tendency in music had begun to be from objective to subjective ideas, from the general to the personal. Vocal music is the objective, and came first; then came instrumental giving freer play to the unrestricted imagination of the writer. The older music was peculiarly formal; the musician had to precede the poet in working out the shape and form of which more beautiful ideas should be presented. Bach was the first to direct these architectural forms of their stiffness, then came Haydn and Mozart, his logical successors...
...read is particularly gratifying to the many friends of the college, which ranks among the first in the South for scholarship and morality, as well as for the discipline which is maintained in it. At no time, it is stated, has the institution been in better condition and freer from vice or disorder. The college has a history dating back half a century, and is noted as having been the only college in the South which did not close its doors during the civil war. It is the successor of Queen's College, which was conducted before the American Revolution...
...with immediate motives in view; the other believes that he must learn before he enters the world that he must depend on himself. The tendency of profesionalized teachers is to follow the first system ; and it must be admitted that the liberal innovators who have reached out toward the freer method have often been sadly disappointed in the practical results. Their students did not accept the responsibility. But perhaps their failure came because they threw themselves upon an ideal method, not modified to conform to actual conditions. The truth is that the American College student is both...
...duty shall be to keep the yard free from obnoxious intruders. If the crowd of the "unwashed" who now frequent the yard were made to understand that they were, like beggars and pedlars, in danger of being "given in charge to the police," our class days, also, would be freer from a disagreeable element, who now regard class day as a public holiday of their...