Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — Literary Notes. [ARTICLE]

Literary Notes.

Since the close of the civil war Harvard University has more than quadrupled its resources in the sum of its endowments and the number of its teachers,and its list of students has increased in something like the same proportion. The libraries of the university include 435,000 volumes, an aggregate surpassed in this country only by the library of x Congress and the Boston Public Library. The principal reason for the lack of success of Harvard men in intercollegiate, games is the fact that there no longer exists in the university the social pressure which may compel an able bodied student, against his better judgment, to devote overmuch of his time to acquiring professional skill in athletics. It is further observed by Prof. N. S. Shaler, from whose article in Harper’s Weekly for November 24 the foregoing statements are drawn, that the need of highly differentiated instruction has become so great that the university has been compelled to rapidly increase the number of its instructors until the list of last year included the names of three hundred and twentytwo such persons, or about ono teacher to each ten students.