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...always attended the schools of his church, in discussing evolution with a gentleman who seemed open to the doctrine, "What, do you want it proved true?" Too often the life of the teachers in parochial schools is so wrapped up in their profession that the education they impart fits one for the church and nothing else...
...customary amount of poor taste and gross ignorance. Harvard has often been attacked on just these same points; and doubtless she must ever expect such attacks as long as their exists a class of writers who are so bold as to write on what they know nothing about, to impart with apparent sincerity, impressions and ideas which are but the outcome of little or almost no study combined with a feverish desire to get in print...
...casual remarks of one of our professors recently. The remark was to the effect that there was too great a tendency to choose the "practical" courses in the curriculum; that men were thus in danger of losing the peculiar benefit which a college education is supposed to impart. Considering the fact that the slurs of the country press are aimed at a supposed tendency towards the choice of Fine Art, Natural History, Spanish and Italian courses, the leaning towards the other extreme is worthy of comment. This is a phase of the subject which deserves more attention than...
...aside, a man is well fitted for almost any sphere in life, be it law, medicine, science, or even a practical business career. The study of the classics provided it be not carried to far, gives an undoubted finish to a man's education that no other studies can impart. For mathematics, the foundation of a practical education fails in polishing the intellectual tone of the mind. Too much time and care cannot be spent by the youngest class in college in selecting and following one of the two chief branches of learning...
...nine? If a man began the study of the classics or in fact any branch of learning unaided by an instructor, he would soon come to a stop and make no advance whatever without professional aid. Unless students learned their knowledge from older and abler men, fit to impart it, there would be but few who would educate themselves unaided. This fact might be applied to athletics as well as to classics and the result would be as gratifying in the former as it has proved to be in the latter. The influence of a professional coach on the nine...