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...proposed to make the studies of the junior and senior years at Cornell almost wholly elective in the general courses...
...last few years in favor of Harvard as opposed to Yale. We have always been known as a Yale school; but a Harvard element had developed lately which threatens to overturn the ancient order of things and place us in the category of Harvard schools. A few years ago almost all our graduates went to Yale. As late as '80, only three or four went to Harvard, with probably twenty or twenty-five to Yale. Last year we believe the numbers were, Harvard 15, Yale 22. This year the preferences of the senior class are Harvard, 15; Yale...
This is peculiarly the period of munificent generosity in public donations and particularly of gifts for educational purposes. Large endowments of new or long established institutions by the wealthy are of almost every day occurrence. A gift of this sort is hardly considered worthy of notice by the press unless it be among the hundred thousands. The example of Johns Hopkins in endowing the university of his name at Baltimore and of Judge Packer in founding Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, emphasized recently by the additional bequest of his son the late President Packer of the Lehigh R. R., of some...
...hard to educate up a public sentiment which shall appreciate the true importance of such higher centralized institutions which shall turn the tendency of endowments towards them. Thus it is that all these institutions like Harvard and Columbia depend for their enlargement almost exclusively upon a certain clientele, composed generally of their own graduates, who above all, appreciate the need and usefulness of such gifts. But such a fact too much indicates how slight a hold the universities have upon the class of other than college graduates. The idea of university education is popular; the application of it halts...
...examinations for this half-year are nearly completed, and they have passed off as a whole with but little friction and unnecessary inconvenience. The college at large is to be congratulated on the results. But pleasant as it may be for those who have completed, or almost completed, this trying undertaking, a hard task remains for quite a number of men. It seems hard that the examinations in two such courses as History XII. and History XIII. should come on these two successive days at the end of the examination period. These two courses cover contemporary periods in the history...