Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make the elective system a hobby. It is a serious question, 'To what extent shall the system of electives be carried?' It is with him a matter of grave inquiry 'whether to exchange so widely, as so many seem disposed to do, the long-established methods of our American Colleges for foreign university methods - as, for example, to make all college studies elective - does not presuppose and require an extent and degree of previous training not yet possible to be attained in our preparatory schools; whether its effect with a large class of students would not be, in fact already...
Books now in stock: Goodwin, Greek Moods and Tenses. In the American Statesmen Series, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Adams. Taussig, Protection to Young Industries. "Important English Statutes," second edition...
...Harvard Canoe Club was represented at the meeting of the American Canoe Association at "Camp Grindstone," Lawrence, this summer, by four of its members, including its officers. T. Dunham, '85, and E. R. Dunham, M. S., cruised to the meet through Lakes George and Champlain over the same route taken by Webster, '85, and Proctor, '87, last year...
...meeting of the American Inter-collegiate Foot-ball Association last fall the rules were modified in many essential particulars. The object of the revises was to give as little chance as possible for rough and brutal play. After the battle in New York between Yale and Princeton, public opinion demanded a change of rules which would do away with the brutality which had characterized that game and in less degree other foot-ball games last fall...
...students of the college have learned of the gift to the corporation of $10,800 by John Tyndall. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institute of Great Britain. The money was received last commencement, and its net income is to be applied to the support, at either American or European Universities, of one or more American pupils who may have some capacity in physics, and "preferably such as shall express their determination to devote their lives to the advancement of theoretic science and original investigation in that department of learning...