Word: views
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...during the first term, to the Freshman class, on the subject of "Integral Education"; the other, during the second term, to the Senior Class, on the "Mutual Relations of the Sciences." These subjects seem to indicate the scope of the instruction desired, and, if made to cover a general view of all knowledge, with advice as to the best methods of study and reading, and the aims to be had in view in studying, a good course of lectures upon them would be of great service. It would be interesting to learn why they were given...
AFTER the hours of the Tabular View change and dinner comes at one instead of two, it is suggested that recitations end at five instead of six. Themes would then come at two, and the first recitation would be at three. We should then have the same interval after dinner as we do at present, and few, we are convinced, think that the time allowed is too short. Themes and Forensics do not fall to the lot of individuals more than once a week, on the average, and the time until three would be amply sufficient for the customary smoke...
EVERY one who has gone through college must have noticed a greater or less change among his acquaintances. We do not mean a "change of heart," any moral improvement, or the reverse, but a sort of intellectual development, and alteration in the point of view from which men regard life. Now these changes are so various that it never occurred to us that they could be comprised under a single formula, till we stumbled across a remark in De Bernard's Gerfaut, one of the most worthless of French novels. The clown of the story has a social theory which...
...view, we confess, American college life seems a hot-house, producing, not gentlemen, but artistes. The majority of men coming to college from elsewhere than the social world of the great cities are pure bourgeois. They have the big virtues and the little, - regard for the truth and virtuous recoil from ponying. They have read nothing but the Requirements for Admission and high-toned books, and scorn all literature but such as "fits them for the work of life." Cards are not only a waste of time, but evil in themselves; and the theatre an abomination...
...original plan has to such an extent proved a failure, that the Club has become convinced of the necessity of some radical change in its methods of procedure, to insure that success which the enterprise deserves, and of which it is still believed capable. With this end in view, a committee appointed for the purpose have arranged for the delivery of a lecture before the Club on next Monday evening, January 18, to be followed, if the experiment should prove a success, by a course of lectures on dramatic literature, on every other Monday of the academic year...