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...educational exhibit at the World's Fair there will be a library illustrating the growth of education from the text book standpoint...
...CENTURY.The Century for April will well reward any reader. It opens with a paper on the Chicago anarchists of 1886 by Hon. Joseph H. Gray, the judge who presided at the trial. It is a thorough historical treatment of the case from the legal standpoint, but nevertheless full of interest to the general reader. It is well illustrated. The third part of "An Embassy to Provence" is as interesting as the preceding. A good installment of "Sweet Bells out of June" is followed by "A Free Museum," a description of the Arnold Arboretum. Every Harvard man should read...
...college man must feel that he would rather play against a graduate - a man who for four years had lived a college life, had become imbued with the college spirit, had learned to look at matters from the collegian's standpoint - than to play against a man who was not a graduate, but who perhaps had been induced to enter a university for a short season in order to take part in some sport in which he was proficient. The tendency to confound the use of the term professional with the idea of skilful through long years of practice...
...CRIMSON has published the opinions of all sides on this much disputed question. The idea of having two teams representing the university is a novel one, but rather far fetched from our standpoint. It may however be interesting to keep in mind the various plans suggested to remedy the evils of the present systems, and to compare them with the one finally adopted. This will doubtless be a curious compromise between them...
...this number is also printed a paper on Charles Sumner written just after his death by the Marquis de Chambrun. Although called "Personal Recollections of Charles Sumner," there is very little "personal" about it. The Marquis was a friend of Charles Sumner and wrote from the standpoint of a man who knew his subject personally, but beyond that, there is little more than a history of a part of Sumner's political career. There are no personal anecdotes, in fact there is little that a careful historian could not have collected...