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This evening the annual competition for the Boylston prizes in declamation occurs in Sanders Theatre, and judging from the ability of the speakers, and the nature of the selections, a very interesting contest may be expected. The reproach is often made against Harvard and other colleges that the art of public speaking so indispensable to the American citizen, is shamefully neglected; but the custom of holding prize declamations frees Harvard to a certain extent from this reproach. The competition is always close, while the interest taken by the students at large shows that the importance of this branch of education...
Ignorance of current events is a reproach often justly cast upon college students. The reason is indifference with some, lack of time with others. The average business men and the average high school boy are better posted upon every day happenings than the great majority of students. To remedy this defect in our education and to give men a clear understanding of those events which soon pass into history, it has been proposed by some that a course in contemporaneous history should be given. The great objection to this plan, which naturally arises, is the folly of attempting...
...mathematical technicalities which we want, but such a general knowledge of the science as every high school graduate, who is not fitting for college, is obliged to have before he can get his diploma. Woeful ignorance of the commonest branches of learning has ever been a reproach to college students. The narrow line of studies which they must pursue in order to secure admission to college is the cause of it. Latin, Greek, and Mathematics take up all of their time; the rudiments of the principal sciences are neglected. Does it not seem right that an opportunity should be offered...
...Bungtown Clarion and sheets of a like stamp which flourish on the plains of Texas. According to this highly tinted fiction, Harvard is a hot-bed of incipient Nihilism and irreligion. Let us look at the question of irreligion for a moment. The statement on its face is a reproach, if not an insult, to the parents and friends of every Harvard student. For by their advice he has been led, not metaphorically speaking, to enter the den of thieves. But is it true? Can any one justly say that student feeling at Harvard is distinctly irreligious? Are we, simply...
...time reproach that Williams was far too conservative for its own interests has become of no significance in the last few years. Athletics are accorded their full scope, electives, without interfering with the most radical ideas of a liberal education, are multiplying, and now lastly but by no means of the least import comes the welcome intelligence that the faculty have decided in favor of semi-annual examinations. We are to be no longer tortured by a fearful looking forward to frequent judgements during the ten weary months of college work - the roots of such learning as we have acquired...