Word: states
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BOARD OF OVERSEERS. Meeting at 50 State street, Boston...
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE. Meeting at 50 State street, Boston...
...followed by an Inauguration Ode dedicated to President Lowell, and what is called an appreciation of the President by An Ancient Editor of the Advocate but is in reality an exposition of the present difficulties of the body academic at Harvard. Mr. William Phillips, Third Assistant Secretary of State, contributes a concise article on The Diplomatic Service of the United States which should be of distinct value to the student thinking of making that service his life work. Mr. Phillips has himself contributed towards raising the standard of both our consular and diplomatic services. Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez has a pleasant...
...progress. May we not say of the extreme elective system what Edmond Sherer said of democracy; that it is but one stage in an irresistible march toward an unknown goal? Progress means change, and every time of growth is a transitional era; but in a peculiar degree the present state of the American college bears the marks of a period of transition. This is seen in the comparatively small estimation in which high proficiency in college studies is held both by undergraduates and by the public at large; for if college education were closely adapted to the needs...
...grasp effectively any problem with which his duties or his interest may impel him to deal. An undergraduate, addicted mainly to the classics recently spoke to his adviser in an apologetic tone of having elected a course in natural science, which he feared was narrowing. Such a state of mind is certainly deplorable, for in the present age some knowledge of the laws of nature is an essential part of the mental outfit which no cultivated man should lack. He need not know much, but he ought to know enough to learn more. To him the forces of nature ought...