Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ecole des hautes etudes is run on the German Seminar system. The subjects taught are Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Natural History and Physiology, Historical and Philological Science, and Economic Sciences. Original work is carried on in every branch and competent men supervise this work. No age, grade or nationality is required for admission, but the candidates are taken on trial for three months and are then reported to the minister and the permanent committee. The course is three years in length. For students in natural history and physiology, there are scientific excursions directed by the professors; for men taking mathematics...
...majority of the class seemed of the opinion that the traditional funeral was an unenjoyable and senseless ceremony, and that it was belittling to the class to get up a circus and play the role of clowns for the benefit of outsiders." With the increase in the average age of the freshman, and the continual raising of the standard of admission, accompanied by a more manly spirit, we may soon hope to look upon cremations and other childish exhibitions of forced celebrations as a thing of the past...
What the country is asking for now is an education which shall fit into a man's life and work in this age, and help him to be of use to society as well as to make the most of himself. Such an education must be to a degree a suggestive one; it must teach a man how to think even more than what to think, and must from its very nature abandon the old rut of thought. The favor with which the "new subjects" are received shows plainly how undergraduate feeling is disposed toward them. Men at college fully...
...particular branch a man may elect. Nearly every one feels how short a time three years is to accomplish anything definite, and the added year would go far to make the college education more satisfactory both to the student and to the outside world, while the increased age of the men would certainly promise a better sort of work than is now given, at least in the first year...
...doubt in the author's mind but that the much sought after sanction by the college faculties will be given, and that in future years we shall have fair as well as sturdy A. M's, A. B's. and Ph. D's. Just when this golden age will arrive, cannot be safely predicted, nor may the present generation hope to see it. Yet, when we look at the debatable point logically, a point at which the divines of England are launching their stores of old saws, proverbs and "antediluvian nonsense," as Dr. Collier sensibly calls it, all opposition ought...