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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...once a vision and a venture, yet, although its visionary character leaves room for possible doubt and makes it seem perhaps fantastical, history has shown, as in the case of Rome before Christ's coming and of China today, that when men lose this visionary trust a low moral state is the inevitable result. With Christ returned the vision of God and the possiblity of redemption. Today the things that keep us most from practical faith in God are engrossing worldly occupations and unrestrained passions. There is also a danger in an ill-directed intellectual life. whoever has, nevertheless, thought...
...President then proceeds to a discussion of the elective system with some remarks upon the prescribed courses. He says that from figures published in previous reports it is possible to state with approximate correctness the subjects and courses which steadily attract large numbers of students, and in this connection he gives the following list...
...State Treasurer Hodge of Connecticut on Tuesday paid to Louis Bristol of New Haven, for Yale University, $154,604.45, the amount of the recent award to Yale by the state Yale-Storrs commission; the injunction in the United States Circuit Court restricting the state treasurer from paying any of the money to Yale College being dissolved...
...Atlantic Monthly has made an inquiry of ten thousand teachers and superintendents of public schools concerning the actual status of teachers and the schools in every part of the Union. The replies from the best informed men in the work in every state give at firsthand information that contains much encouragement, but much discouragement also. The excessive size of classes, the instability of great masses of teachers, the insecurity of their positions, in some communities the petty political and religious interference-these "confessions" are startling and shocking. A general summary of the results of this interesting inquiry by Professor...
...stated that State Treasurer Hodge has declined for the present to pay to Yale the money awarded by the terms of the Storrs arbitration decision, amounting to $154,000. Mr. Hodge represents that the terms of the act passed by the Legislature of last year authorizing the appointment of the commission were ambiguous in nature, and that he thinks it his duty to refer the entire matter to the next Legislature before paying the amount to Yale. The Yale Corporation will make another effort to collect the money...