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...McCosh has added a new volume to his Philosophical series, entitled "Locke's Theory of Knowledge...
President McCosh of Princeton has just presented his annual report to the trustees. Several points in it are of general college interest: The proposed extension of the Department of Philosophy is, says Dr. McCosh, Progressing favorably. The number of advanced students in that department this year has been large, and it is expected to increase with the opening of the next season. Dr. McCosh says the department will be the most complete of any college in America or any other country, except Germany. The faculty is making a new distribution of studies, required by the addition of new branches...
...meeting of representatives from the faculties of the chief colleges met in New York to discuss athletics. This convention arose from Dr. Sargent's visit to the various colleges and was called by the Athletic Committee of Harvard. There were present Prof. Norton and Dr. Sargent, from Harvard; President McCosh of Princeton; Professor Richards of Yale; Mr. Goodwin of Columbia and many other presidents and professors. After a long discussion on athletics, in which every one seemed to be agreed that professionals and professionalism should be rigorously excluded from college athletics, it was decided to appoint a large committee...
...recent lecture on Evolution, delivered in Pittsburg, President McCosh said : "My first position is the certainty of evolution. Evolution is but the coming of one thing out of another. No scientific man under thirty years of age in any country denies it, to my knowledge. To oppose it is to injure young men. I am at the head of a college where to declare against it would perplex my best students. They would ask me which to give up, science or the Bible. There is a general progression in nature. The theory that the world was once a vapor from...
...fourth volume of Dr. McCosh's Philosophic Series, entitled "Certitude, Providence and Prayer," has just been published by Charles Scribner's Sons...