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...means advanced. We can see how it was with Harvard from the change of curriculum effected in 1787. Up to that time the Latin and Greek provided had consisted of Virgil Cicero's Orations and the Greek Testament. By the changes made in 1787 the students were to read in Latin, Horace, Sallust and Cicero "de Oratore;" and in Greek, Xenophon and Homer. Even this was not a more advanced curriculum than that of the best preparatory schools of the present time. The study of mathematics was probably not carried much beyond geometry. Harvard, then, had 300 students and Princeton...
...absurdly exaggerated and, in many respects, absolutely untruthful, articles concerning the tendencies of life at Harvard, which have recently appeared in magazines and newspapers, have been productive of one good result. Under the leadership of Rev. Frank B. Vrooman, a committee of students, who have formerly been members of other colleges, has been investigating the tendencies of religious life here. Mr. Vrooman, in an interview with a reporter of the Boston Post, speaks of the work of the committee and some of its results. The gentleman, besides being a student in the philosophical department of the University, is the pastor...
...monitors will mark as follows at Chapel, viz: Tarday after the beginning of the Doxology; absent after its close-Faculty order.- Amherst Student...
...Deutscher Verein course, the lecture on "Goethe as Autobiographer," by Professor A. A. Ripley, of Boston, will be very entertaining. In addition to those mentioned, several debates and readings of less general interest are announced. In this list every student ought to be able to find something attractive...
...Every student is required to follow implicitly the directions with regard to paper, folding, endorsing, etc., given on the English Composition card...