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...course of instructions developed and quite distinct from those institutions which are to further the progress of science such as the College de France, the Jardin des Plantes, and the Ecle des Etudes Superieures. The faculties are entirely separated from one another, even when they are in the same town. The course of study is definitely prescribed, and is controlled by frequent examinations. French teaching is confined to that which is clearly established, and transmits this in a well-arranged, well-worked-out manner, which is easily intelligible, and does not excite doubt nor the necessity of deeper enquiry...
...location for a university. He assumes that as that city is the largest in the country it would be the most desirable city for such an institution, and hinges the whole question upon the relative merits of a location in a city and one in a small town. He combats the idea that a university needs quiet and removal from the excitements and activities of a throng by saying "that as this is a practical age, and as the object of education is to fit young men for the duties and responsibilities of practical life, the greatest advantages exist...
Another consideration of value according to the writer is "the fact that in a great city those who teach partake of the earnestness, activity and force by which they are surrounded, in which they live." The writer also takes into consideration a few of the advantages a smaller town offers to students. "That which has always carried the greatest weight with me is the closer life into which students are brought by a college in an isolated situation. Young men act and re-act upon each other. They stimulate each other. They relentlessly pursue, and they most effectually...
...were preceded by a band and a wagon of fire works which were passed back as rapidly as the men could fire them off. A large number of the men were supplied with tin horns and red flags, besides being completely dressed in red. After marching all over the town of New London and going through various semi-military evolutions the procession halted in front of the office of Governor Waller, and after a "three times three" for the governor of Connecticut, listened to a speech which was frequently interrupted by cheers. After complimenting Harvard on her victory, and referring...
...visiting Williams nothing, perhaps, is more striking than the quiet seclusion of the town and college. One of our graduates has said that Harvard is in Cambridge, Amherst is in Amherst, but Williams is Williamstown, which remark probably tells more than appears at a single glance. In fall, as the evenings begin to lengthen and the old Berkshire hills begin to take on the brighter hues of autumn, it becomes a common question among the fellows how the long, dull weeks of the winter term are to be enlivened, every student believing with all his heart that "much study...