Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Archaeological Institute of America has $76,000 pledged for the work at Delphi...
...Harvard students ought to be reduced, he suggests that even now the men are none too old for the self-government that is placed in their hands, or for a thorough understanding of principles of philosophy, ethics, and sociology. In case the growth of higher education in America has not kept up with that of the population (a fact which President Warren doubts), is the best way of remedying the evil that of turning out on the world a lot of superficially educated men? Harvard has always taken the lead of other colleges in matters of education...
...most important of DeFoe's novels, with the exception of Robinson Crusoe, is Colonel Jack. The book has curiously enough, never before been published in America. In Robinson Crusoe, DeFoe took for his hero an English slaveholder, shipwrecked on the coast of Guinea while going for more slaves; in Colonel Jack, he chose a while slave bound to toil under the "apprenticeship" system of the American colony of Virginia. The style is exactly that of the more celebrated work, and presents the life of the slave in comparison with that other great novel which deals with the fortunes...
...Pulsifer, '90, G. R. Pulsifer, '88, J. Prentiss, '84, and others. Professors James and Wendell discussed as length the proposed reduction of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Harvard College. Professor James showed that men begin their professional training earlier throughout the Continent than in America. In England men graduate at about the same age as in America. There, however, most members of the more highly educated classes are rich, here they are poor. In England, consequently, an aristocratic system of education is possible; university education in America, on the other hand should aim above...
...also call attention to the fact that this is the week of prayer for colleges. All the Protestant educational institutions in America unite in religious effort on this week. The daily meetings here will be only fifteen minutes long and ought to be well attended...