Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Goodale is shortly to deliver a course of lectures on "Forests and the Forest Products of America." The lectures will be in Huntington Hall, in boston, in the Lowell Institute series...
...these would-be founders could only recognize what a true university is, and devote their money to the few such that we have in America, it would be much more useful in aiding the higher education of Americans than is the present craze of founding universities. The "Presto, change!" of a millionaire cannot turn his money-bags into a university any more than he can manufacture a Rueben's by daubing $10,000 worth of paint upon a canvas. A true university ought to be the intellectual centre of a country, a place not only where a student can study...
...emphasis on his career during the forty-five years of his connection with the University. He said that even from the beginning of this period he was recognized as one of the rising men in the scientific world, and that later by his indefatigable labors on the flora of America, he became recognized as the leading botanist of his generation. Dr. McKenzie was peculiarly fitted for his task of giving an estimate of this naturalist's life. He was his friend and ardent admirer, and, thoroughly understanding and appreciating him, was able to throw much valuable light on the character...
...strange coincidence, death came on the same day to America's and to England's greatest botanists-Asa Gray and Thomas Irvine Boswell...
...matter of fact, there are very few schools in the country where boys are taught the literature of America. This is a crying evil and should be remedied. The question is how to do it? The editorial quoted suggests the remedy. It lies with the colleges, not with the schools, for the latter shape their curriculum according to the requirements for admission to college. Let us require, then, in our entrance examinations a knowledge of one or two of the principal American authors. The schools cannot help following our lead in this matter, and it may be the means...