Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Here is a showing especially annoying in the absence of great dispute that Harvard affords the widest and most thorough opportunities for students in America. Fair minded people, I think, do not hesitate to accept the idea that Harvard has more educational advantages than Yale to offer, although they may question whether the student is as much pressed into accepting them. Her faculty, system of instruction, library, and tone of surrounding give her an unequalled and always increasing educational value, and no person would pass her by as insufficient in an academic aspect. That her numbers do not increase...
...Harvard is no worse than any of her sister colleges. On the contrary any unbiased observer will admit without hesitation that in no college in America are the students more gentlemanly than here. Nowhere do they preserve better order among themselves than here; nowhere are hazing and rowdy-like amusements frowned on as here, and nowhere is the "fast set" smaller in proportion. People who have lived in other college towns will admit that no where are the students on better terms with the inhabitants than here...
...Fullerton, '86, has an interesting review in yesterday's Advertiser, of Professor Norton's article on "The Intellectual Life of America," published in the "New Princeton Review" for November...
Professor N. S. Shaler has a second paper upon "The Immigration Problem Historically Considered" in the last number of America...
Professor N. S. Shaler has an interesting article entitled, "The Immigration Problem Historically Considered," in the last number of America...