Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last Wednesday Professor Norton lectured at the Institute of Technology on "The Culture required of an Artist." Tonight his subject is "Architecture as a Fine Art;" and next week he will talk on "The opportunities of the Architect in America...
...talk before the College Conference last night, President Eliot brought out many interesting and significant facts in relation to Harvard's development and the advance of the whole educational system in America. Of his observations perhaps none was more striking than when he spoke of the rapidity with which western colleges are approaching the high standard of the eastern colleges. For Harvard at this time such a fact has especial significance. We are now in the midst of a discussion, for and against, the reduction of the requirements for the A. B. degree. As we understand...
President Jordan's studies have covered a wide range, but his specialty is fishes, and he is an acknowledged authority in this branch of science. He has printed over 200 papers on American ichthyology and a manual of the vertebrae of North America. He is the vertebrate anatomist of whom President Eliot spoke last night...
...high; second, that the growth in our standards and efficiency and the contemporary rise of the graduate school have been so great as to make the A. B. degree no longer the limit of general culture; third, that in general the number of college-bred men in America in proportion to the population has been growing less, and that the too high standard has been the cause of this defection; fourth, that at present there is a tendency to idle away a year in a vain belief in the good effect of a dreamy culture; fifth, that lowering the degree...
Geological Conference. Mr. C. D. Walcott of the United States Geological Survey will address the Conference on "The Cambrian Rocks of North America." Geological Laboratory...