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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that type of mental and moral philosophy most in favor with the clerical class. Science was taught chiefly from text-books, with history, modern languages, and English literian in a rapidly diminishing scale. These institutions were all under the influence of the different religious denominations, and their presidents adn professors were largely drawn from the clergy. The higher education was only for men, there being no schools for girls in the country where a thorough college course could be obtained. Indeed, neither the capacity of the sex for the higher education nor the propriety of it were acknowledge outside...
...undecided as to whether he should send his boy to Yale or Harvard, settling finally on the latter, solely because of the reported malarial tendencies of New haven. And this imminity of Harvard is undoubtedly due in great measure to the wise fore-thought of the college authorities. Three adn a half years ago, although there had been up to that time no evil results, they removed from the dormitory buildings, at considerable expense, a system of drainage that was most offensive, and that would probably before this time have brought a fever epidemic. The college now is absolutely healthful...
...hundred adn eighty-two men have handed in their names for a physical examinations...