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...wish to say a few words about it. This school seems to have found a solution of the problem which has been puzzling the brains of educators for a number of years past,-how to teach modern languages in classes so that they may become real and live to the students. The scheme is to educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice, so that the languages can be spoken as well as read, and it is almost useless for us to add that this method is the only thoroughly satisfactory one. English, for the time being...
Under this state of affairs it was but natural that some remedy should be sought. President White finds it in the student society hall, that sort of link between dormitory and boardinghouse. Such a house tends to take those who live in it out of the category of boys and place them in the category of men. "In such buildings as these, the student has a personal interest in his breeding; he is responsible for it, and instead of diminishing its value, he would add to it in more ways than...
...certain extent a possible one, but that it could ever become firmly fixed enough to radically change the method of housing students where large bodies of them are gathered together, hardly seems probable. And we fear that for a good many years to come, students will be forced to live in dormitories and boarding houses, and undergo the trials and tribulations of their forefathers...
...sentiment of undergraduates, mean manliness and fair play. The qualities of judgment, decision, coolness in the midst of excitement, and self-reliance, are developed. The value of discipline is learned by those who become members of teams, and all learn to care for their health. People who live in college towns will testify that with the increase in athletic sports there has been a decrease in the number of student escapades which disturb the peace and injure the property of their victims. Has it ever been charged that the average of scholarship was any lower since these days of athletics...
...great mankind, all who have not exceptional and overpowering aptitudes for the study of nature, would do well, I cannot but think, to choose to be educated in humane letters rather than in the natural sciences. Letters will call out their being at more points, will make them live more." These words of the great apostle of sweetness and light come to us with peculiar force today, just as Mr. Arnold has left this country for England, and just now when we are in the very heat of the discussion of the "classics vs. sciences." It was to be expected...