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...centuries passed schools slipped from the control of the Church, and benefit of clergy was no more. But no people cling to tradition and custom as do schoolmen the world over. And so Latin, and Greek too, for that matter, remained a basic part of the usual school curriculum. And now some disrespectful and doubting inquirer stands up and asks why it is that children should spend so large a fraction of their whole school time in the technical study of languages that have been dead and buried these many years. Immediately there is a great hunting for reasons...
...EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE. "The New Plan for Admission to Harvard." Professor Baker. Common Room, Conant Hall, 8 P. M. Open to members of the University and to schoolmen...
...Sunday afternoons during January and February, Dean Hodges of the Episcopal Theological School lectures at St. John's Chapel at 4 p. m., on topics connected with Mediaeval Life. The remaining subjects are on Jan. 23, "The Days of Chivalry"; Jan. 30, "Doctors and Schoolmen"; Feb. 6, "Friars in Black and Gray"; Feb. 13, "The Priests and the People"; Feb. 20, "Heretics and Inquisitors"; Feb. 27, "Reformers before the Reformation...
...comment of Philalethes, King John of Saxony, accompanying his translation of the poem is of value from its general intelligence and its numerous citations from the schoolmen...
...dissatisfaction many feel with the methods and aims of the English school in the main, and seemingly fruitless discussions of economics today, and the mistakes made by economists in the past. A concise statement of the English method is made and the criticisms on it given. The new schoolmen find its faults to be in the fact that it is too reductive and too absolute. They hold that results derived from historical research are more reliable than those from a priori principle. They wish to join the question of economics with ethics and sociology, and not consider it as regarding...