Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American Statesman at 80 cents, till Feb. 7. The 14th vol. Thos. H. Benton, is ready. Also C. D. Warner's, Their Pilgrimage; Symon's Introduction to the study of Browning; and Rolfe's editions of Childe Harold, and Scott's Poems...
This is a most important and weighty statement; and it is a very true one. The more students in our American colleges attach themselves to courses of study which will lead them in practical work in after life, the better for them. Courses in French, English Literature and Fine Arts make good conversationalists; but they help one but little in the stern realities of a legal or business career. Men ought to think previously how they are drifting, before they make their election of courses; for they frequently lose all track of their previous education, their previous convictions, and their...
...more in keeping with the needs of the time, has been pre-eminently a characteristic of the present administration at Harvard. This was well pointed out by President Angell of Michigan in his after-dinner speech at the Harvard celebration last November. He alluded to the debt that all American colleges owe to the old university for the bold spirit of experiment that has led to the recognition of the difference in value between the traditional, customary, and conventional methods, inherited from previous generations, and the new, fresh, original methods, that contribute their share to the advance...
...Great American Traveller. Boston, January...
There will be a course of four lectures given in New York next month in aid of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The lecturers will be Dr. Waldstein, Dr. Gildersleeve of Johns Hopkins, Prof. Merriam of Columbia and Prof. Goodwin of Harvard. - Exchange...