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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that optional studies may be altogether discontinued. Yale needs more elective studies, so as to give every man an opportunity to improve himself in a manner which he deems wisest. I believe a man entering college is capable to make his choice of electives, and a great many men often discuss the matter over with friends and teachers before entering. To give up optional studies is going just one step in the wrong direction, and is almost sure to meet with failure. Harvard has adopted an extensive elective system and its success is already assured. The men who graduate under...
...modest, however, to talk of ourselves, we would turn our attention to others, and would speak of a few new year's resolutions, which would, we think, benefit our friends. First, are the overseers capable of turning over a new leaf? Appearances say, no; but, as appearances are often deceitful, we would hope, yes. As a new year's gift to them we would submit our prayer petition, and would hope that they may be so influenced by seasonable ambition that something new may be recorded of them, that they have actually considered our request and have recognized its force...
...house, and in gifts chosen with equal delicacy for the feelings and regard for the needs of the recipient. Indeed, the considerate courtesy which is an essential part of the true kindness marked his whole social intercourse, regardless as he was of some of the conventional forms that are often the expression of - perhaps as often the substitute for - heart-courtesy...
...coarse enough to be applied justly to every kind of test. With these mutual limits, then, let us define to some extent our test; then our marking system will be practically developed also. Many studies, and most of our courses, can properly be tested only in part, - and that often a very small part, - by means of written examinations. For instance, one of the extreme follies of the present system can be seen in our examination papers on Elocution; for this subject, it need hardly be said, should be tested by declamations and readings. And so with many other subjects...
...poetical powers of Mr. Santayana might, perhaps, be questioned, when he handles that most dangerous of all compositions, the philosophical sonnet, but here they cannot be. The translation is peculiarly happy, and evidences no low order of poetical talent in the writer. The turn of the verse is often very good and leaves the impression of strong reserve power. Little effort or straining after a striking line is noticed, and the result is a piece of work at once powerful and poetical. There are a faint rythm and music which pervade the entire poem, rendering it harmonious even when...