Word: hearings
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...hear that it is proposed to add a Latin oration to the commencement day programme. This seems a protest on the part of the faculty against the ultra radical classics, and perhaps a mild assertion of the fact that there are students at Yale who have acquired at least a speaking acquaintance with the classics. And this is by no means an unreasonable exhibition. The Sheff. seniors write theses upon chemistry, engineering, machinery, and other subjects connected with their courses; the theologies deliver embryo sermons; the lawyers amateur pleas; the academics launch on the shivering audiences grand utterances of political...
...having procured such eminent speakers as will address the college to-night in Sanders. We are sure that Mrs. Livermore and Col. Higginson will not fail to draw out a large audience; and we believe that all who can, should attend, although it be only to see and "hear" these two eminent speakers of the day. Then, too, the cause which they will advocate and the arguments which they are to present will be well worth attention and consideration, although they may not always receive unrestricted approbation. Moreover, it is a novelty to have a woman speaking in Sanders Theatre...
Says Charles Francis Adams, Jr., "I am no believer in that narrow scientific and technological training which now and again we hear extolled. A practical and too often a mere vulgar money-making utility seems to be its natural outcome. On the contrary the whole experience and observation of my life lead me to look with greater admiration, and an envy ever increasing, on the broadened culture which is the true aim of the university...
...Harvard we hear of no less than three governing bodies,- the overseers, the corporation, and the faculty. To the students the vast quantity of decisions and reconsiderations, the vote of one body, and a refusal to concur by another are extremely perplexing. It is gratifying to learn that the students are not alone in their perplexity, for the board of overseers has appointed a committee to find out what its legitimate powers are. If this inquiry should lead to the adoption of a written constitution, which would serve as a substitute for the unwritten usages and theories, the system...
While on his Easter vacation, your correspondent visited the Columbia gymnasium to ascertain some facts about the crews. Accompanied by a friend who acted as guide, he entered the gymnasium, which is pleasantly located in a cellar in the Grammar School. But-I hear you say-we thought all Columbia was a grammar school. No, you are mistaken; there is a nice little college, without any dormitories, around the corner, a nice little athletic field at Mott Haven, and a nice little boat-house on the Harlem; and to end up comfortably, here we are in a real nice little...