Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...statistics of the study of elocution in this country, showing that his art had already gained a firm foothold, and was rapidly advancing to the position of science. Elocution with us is only about fifty years old, less than twenty-five years in the colleges. There are now in America 3,000 teachers and 150,000 students of elocution. More college men are needed in the profession to raise it to its proper ranks. Very few of the colleges, in their curriculum, give more than toleration to this very important study. Princeton, Boston University, Cornell, are valuable exceptions to this...
...nest of corruption, scepticism and philosophic indifference, the college itself is waxing in greatness year by year. Borne by the impulse of her own audacity, Harvard is on a tidal wave of success. From the present chaos of change there bids fair to be evolved something that America does not possess - a great university. - Cincinnati Telegram...
...University of Pennsylvania still possesses several winners in former inter-collegiate contests. Farries of the Medical School won the mile run in 1884 and 1885, with a record of 4 minutes, 40 seconds. Page, '88, holds the amateur championship of America in the running high jump, with the tremendous record of 6 feet, 1-4 in. Brenton, '88, is said to have cleared 21 feet, 4 inches, in the broad jump. Kohler, '87, is the rival of Renton of the University of Pennsylvania in the bicycle race. As it is probable that neither Hamilton of Yale nor Dean of Harvard...
...observe the improvement and continued prosperity of the Harvard Monthly. Although the youngest of the Harvard periodicals, it is undoubtedly the most literary. It contains articles of the greatest excellence by the members of the university, and it is a very valuable addition to the college journals of America. The price of subscription - only one dollar a year - is certainly very reasonable. - Exonian...
...year. Many will give more than this sum in payment for half the subscription of a college paper, and expend many times this amount for other reading matter, while by joining the reading-room they might have not only the best illustrated and comic papers of England and America, but also the leading journals of these two countries, and the representative dailies of Boston, New York and Springfield, not to mention sporting papers and papers from other colleges. It was hoped that the students would show such an interest in supporting this reading-room, that the college authorities in course...