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...teaching. The brain is not loaded down with long lists of names; no tables of statistics of populations of cities, lengths of rivers and heights of mountains are employed. A view of the following programme of a "realschule" of the first order at Leipzig, as given in a recent number of Science (from which many of the points of this article are taken) may show how thoroughgoing the instruction...
...contributor to a recent number of the Yale News advocates that a congress be established at that college. Such a congress would, in general, afford very much the same opportunities for debate and discussion that Harvard men now enjoy in the Union. This proposal which is made at Yale is but one of the many with which our college papers all over the country are filled. To-day there seems to be a sort of fever in our American colleges for starting congresses, houses of commons, and the like. The formation of such debating societies, which shall keep the students...
President Eliot's recent visit to Princeton was his first in over thirty years...
...Harvard Crimson in a recent article refers to the proposition to establish a school of Political Science at Washington for the training of candidates for our civil service and diplomatic corps; but, despairing of seeing such an institution in that city, it advocates the addition of such a department to Harvard. The idea is an excellent one, and should receive more attention from our educators and legislators. If such a department were added to our universities, it would not only insure a better civil service, but it would make the "scholar in politics" a reality instead of a reformer...
...Hart has stated that no definite plan in regard to History 20 for next year has as yet been decided upon, his recent reference to that course being only to discover how many men would take the course, if United States History, since 1861, was to be the work of the year...