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...statement: "The great majority of men in this country who belong to the intellectual professions are not liberally educated." Such a statement from such a source well deserves a thorough consideration. The cry "are our young men being educated for the work of the twentieth century or the seventeenth?" takes upon itself a new significance. It is no longer a question of whether Mr. Adams is right, but of the true meaning of a liberal education. There can, of course, be no question of the fact that there are many professional men in the country who have a thorough...
...although the meaning of the degree of Bachelor of Arts has quietly undergone many serious modifications, "it ought now to be fundamentally and openly changed." Through the force of custom, tradition, inherited tastes, and transmitted opinions; the educational practices of today are still cast in the moulds of the seventeenth century. The scholars of that time saw a great light which shone out of darkness and they worshipped it; and we, their descendants, in the ninth generation, upon whom greater lights have arisen, still worship at the same shrine. A position of academically equality with Greek, Latin and mathematics...
...Williams College Alumni Association of Boston had its seventeenth annual reunion and dinner in that city on Tuesday evening, President Franklin Carter being among the guests. The venerable Mark Hopkins sent his regrets at his inability to be present, and added: "I would like also, if I might, to say a word in favor of the college idea as it has existed in this country-that is, the idea of an education distinctively liberal. It has been toward the realization of that idea that my life work has been devoted. My wish has been to have here an institution that...
...There are four plain cases which contain these literary rarities. Perhaps the most valuable and most incomprehensible to the majority of visitors are the Biblical manuscripts. There are about ten in one case, not the least of which cost three hundred francs. They range from the eighth to the seventeenth century. The oldest purports to be of the eighth century, and, "if so, is the oldest manuscript on the American continent." The majority are pictured manuscripts, and the gorgeousness of illustration is indescribable. Especially notable is the diversity of colors. Indeed, the chief aim of the artists seems to have...
...seventeenth annual dinner of the Harvard Club was given at Delmonico's in New York last night. Among those present were President Eliot of Harvard College, William M. Evarts, Joseph H. Choate, George A. Goddard of Boston, Hon. Charles W. Clifford of New Bedford, William Merrick of Springfield, Mass., Julian Hawthorne and Horatio Alger...