Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discussion on "Religion in Colleges" by Presidents McCosh and Eliot, is given in brief on another page. One part of this discussion seems to turn on the meaning of the word "religion." Harvard is non-religious only so far as she is strictly non-sectarian. Princeton is religious, but cannot be said to be non-sectarian. But really religion is, as President Eliot says, "wider, broader, deeper than sectarianism." We believe most strongly that of the three types of American colleges, the "uncompromising denominational," the "semi-denominational," and the non-sectarian, the last is the best, for it can most...
...reason why magazines are so popular is that everybody reads them at the same time. No matter in what part of the country one finds himself, he is never at a loss for polite conversation if he has read the latest magazines. And it need not be empty talk, to discuss some striking character of Miss Woolson's or Mr. Howell's, to disagree over an article on the social question, to wonder at the latest scientific discovery. It is not strange that the "Popular Science Monthly" should be so much read at Harvard. It is almost the only college...
...beginning of the second year. The classics can now all be got rid of before entering the university, leaving the student free, as at Harvard now, to specialize as much as he pleases. The great public schools are altering their curricula so as not only to finish the classical part of the education, but supply elementary instruction in the principal sciences. Thus one after another the old ideas give way to the new, and the fossils are put on the shelves where no longer as models, but as objects of wonder they may be looked at by succeeding generations...
Messrs. Mumford and Borland on the part of Harvard have completed arrangements whereby the annual boat-race will be rowed at New London for the next five years...
...rooms. To run these nine hundred lights would require one large dynamo or several smaller ones, which would cost six thousand dollars. To drive these there would be necessary a seventy-five horse power steam engine, which, with the boiler-house, et cetera, would cost about ten thousand dollars. Part of this expense might not be necessary, as the university already possesses two small engines near the Jefferson Laboratory, which could be used for the purpose. Leaving these out of the question, for though they would of course, reduce the initial expense, they are now used for other purposes which...