Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University of Michigan has 1,535 students, the second largest number of any American institution of learning...
...careful statistician reports that there are in American 1801 institutions devoted to higher education. Attending those are 163,570 male and 30,587 female students. In 1880, 154,375 of our 227,710 school teachers were women...
...like the later English writers, seems to have drawn much inspiration from that same overthrow - after saying all this, proceeds to evolve Victor Hugo and Theophile Gautier from the paltry revolution of 1830, and from these all the other French writers from Zola to Daudet, the American realist and Tolstoi, which latter, after a pun on the word art, he proceeds to magnify at the expense of Daudet and Zola and Miss Austen. Because much of the experience of Zola and his contemporaries is of the gutter, much of their writing smacks of the slum, but is it the less...
...senior class of wearing dress suits at graduation. We see no reason why the present senior class should institute a departure from an old custom, especially as by so doing they would make an innovation which is "decidedly English," and which is wholly out of place in our American institutions. The gowns in question would never, in all probability, be be brought into requisition after graduation. Here, then, is an extra expense from which no adequate return can be derived. The expenses of graduation are heavy enough now without adding to the list this seemingly unnecessary item. Then, again...
Prof. Dexter of Yale is writing a new history of the American continent...