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...Briggs has an article in the October number of the "Atlantic Monthly" on "Some Old-Fashioned Doubts about New-Fashioned Education." In this article Dean Briggs expresses some doubts as to whether the best results are to be obtained by the "new-fashioned" education in its increasing tendency to mould itself with too great pliability, to individual traits and tendencies. "With the kindergarten at one end of our education and with the elective system at the other we see, or seem to see a falling off in the vigor with which men attack distasteful but useful things,--a shrinking from...
...society, the individual drops out of sight. Man has but few wants, of those wants he is totally secure. The spur of action is gone, the need for creative genuis is no longer felt, and we have a quiet submissive sort of beings, with ideas much in the same mould and with originality effaced...
Surely the donors of these books intended them for the students' use and it is only the duty of the library authorities to grant us this privilege rather than to put the books away to mould, leaving but one dictionary on the reference shelves...
There are but two pieces of verse in the number, "At Crawford's," and "The Mould and the Bell," neither of which is especially good, nor indeed, especially intelligible. Some book reviews and the "Advocate's Brief" complete the number. The latter would be of much more value if it came down to more modern times than April...
...discussed are to us students, living questions, and the opinions of men like President Eliot, Professor Norton and the Rev. J. G. Brooks, are likely to impress deeply young men whose minds are still open to conviction. Our dogmas are as yet unformed, and here is an opportunity to mould them well. Tonight, Mr. Geo. W. Cable speaks on a subject which concerns every man. It is needless to commend the lecturer to the college; all know who he is, and his reputation as a novelist is sufficient to insure a favorable reception. His added success as a lecturer only...