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...plan to meet it successfully would greatly be appreciated by the students. Many valuable newspaper articles bearing upon topics of great moment are practically lost from the present inefficient means for preserving them. When such articles have become history, they have an additional value which is only too often enhanced by their peculiar propensity for never appearing when sought. We cannot take too great care to preserve the current literature of great national topics, and we hope that some plan for the preservation of such articles, may be adopted by the management of the library...
...Natural History with 454; Philosophy, 357; Political Economy, 324; Greek, 229; Latin, 203; English and German, 194 each; French, 189; Fine Arts, 181; Chemistry, 174. We see by this that some of the hardest courses are elected by the greatest number of men, thus showing the falsity of the often-heard statement that, under an elective system, "soft" courses are usually chosen. It is curious to note that Greek and Latin are more popular than either English, French or German. And yet we are told that the elective system has killed the classics...
...whatever was Harvard could not be Yale. This supposition has given us both joy and sorrow. The latter feeling has been especially prominent in athletics, and the way in which athletics should be supported. Yale enthusiasm, and Harvard indifference have formed the two pictures which have been so often placed side by side, that the comparison might be the more marked by the just opposition. A mingled feeling of joy and sadness, joy because "misery loves company," and sadness because we pity anyone as badly off as we are,- now comes upon us as we learn the distance which separates...
...Herbert B. Adams, instructor in history at Johns Hopkins, speaking on this subject says, "The classification and preservation of the best articles on economic, social, and political topics, is found by all to be exceedingly useful. How often does one wish that he had saved the report of some court decision, scholar's address a statesman's speech, a mayor's message, divorce statistics, new facts and illustrations! How often these things would work into the warp and woof of a student's task if he could only lay his hand upon them at the proper moment...
...Dartmouth is not anxious for an oratorical association. It says: "Oratorical contests are often opposed by faculties as tending to create false standards of public speaking. But, setting aside all objections that may be urged against existing associations, the idea of forming a new one seems a little absurd. It would be much better to have inter-collegiate spelling contests, or, if spelling is too easy, let chemical formulae be substituted for words. While we are about it, we might also institute inter-collegiate mathematical examinations, or perhaps some contest to see which college gives the best instruction in Greek...