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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...down. America has no parallel to the schools of Europe, although she has better opportunities for this study. Johns Hopkins, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia give courses in statistical science which are valuable. The advantages of theoretical training are incalcuable. Experience with practical situations has shown the need of the study of statistical science as a theory, giving one thereby the ability to use the facts which he has discovered. However the word theory misleads the public. It would be better to banish its use in connection this science. The statistician should have the power to foresee...
...much to put an end to the stories of college graduates who in their misery and want bemoan the years "they wasted at college." When a corporation of the strength and vitality of Harvard University takes hold of a matter some striking results are inevitable. If the students in need of situations and the employers in need of men take advantage of the offer which has been made a mutual gain cannot fail to result...
...college men. This complaint is such an old one, that we are ashamed to be obliged to renew it, but it is so well grounded that we feel sure it will some day be listened to and remedied. Of course the root of the whole evil is the great need of more dormitories...
...splendid development of physical manhood, as the boys grow up to take the paternal place. Good fathers and doting mothers may object to this advice, but the old adage, "all work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy," is a mighty true saying. There is as much need for relaxation as there is for food and sleep. - Spirit of the Times...
...their sectarian views may be. We believe that there is a place in the University for such meetings, for although the Y. M. C. A. and St. Paul's Society are helpful to many, there are doubtless many men in college who are truly religious, and who feel the need of some religious association with their fellows, and yet are not sufficiently clear in their beliefs to place themselves under any particular religious standard...