Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stock: Stephin's Criminal Law, $1.83. Otto's German Composition for German I. Magin; Historie de France. Tauchnitz edition of Cicero's Philippics. The authorised American edition of De Quincy's Works, 12 vols., $12.00. Single vols., $1 each. American Statesman still furnished at 84 cents...
...constitution of Harvard, which only with this year have reached their full development. Now at last the college has been transformed. And I hope it is not with idle pride that we now believe it to be the most liberal in its advantages, the most complete, the best American university. And yet the change is not so great as is often thought. In my day even we already had the elective system. The senior and part of the junior year studies, if I remember, were wholly optional. To day the average age at entrance is what ours was at graduation...
...stock: Stephin's Criminal Law, $1.83. Otto's German Composition for German I. Magin; Historie de France. Tauchnitz edition of Cicero's Philippics. The authorised American edition of De Quincy's Works, 12 vols., $12.00. Single vols., $1 each. American Statesman still furnished at 84 cents...
Resolved, That the tendency of Harvard toward broader university methods is a positive gain to American education...
...sacred memory of John Harvard, who set the first example on the American continent, of a union between private munificence and public education which has bound successive generations as with links of steel, together, and has given to an unknown stranger a deathless name...