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When criticism is made of the manner in which many courses in the University are conducted, the captious student often fails to appreciate fully the fact that it is no simple task for a professor to step down from the platform and view in retrospect faults in his system. If the latter were able to assume the dual role of lecturer and critic, even then it would not be surprising if many of the weaknesses in his treatment of the subject were overlooked...
...specious nature. Just now the members of the graduating classes are at the most enthusiastic phase of their collegiate life. The term of academic work is drawing to a close, and all are bouyant with hopes for the future. Thus all are sure to view their college careers in retrospect with optimism, and to say they have reaped untold advantages from their four years of academic life. Yet to be really valuable, such information as to the relation of college training to future success can be given only after future success, or failure, has been achieved. In other words, graduates...
North American Review-"A Retrospect and a Prospect", by B. T. Washington h.'96; "Philadelphia", by H. Jones...
...William Lyon Phelps, Yale '77, comes first in the contents of the number. This is followed by "Yale and Harvard as Rivals and Friends," by Professor Charles R. Lanman, Yale '71; "The Yale Spirit," a delightful appreciation of Yale life and ways of thought, by Professor Barrett Wendell; and "Retrospect and Confession," by Lyttleton Fox, Yale 1902, the president of the Yale Literary Magazine. An ode to Yale College by Henry Wyman Holmes is sincere and powerful...
Under the general head, "English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: A Retrospect," Professor Lewis E. Gates is contributing a series of essays to the Critic. The first of the series entitled "The Romantic Movement" appears in the January number...