Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...life was not long, and it, too, died before it had completed its first year. The ball, however, had now been set a rolling, and from this time on, college journalism grew with amazing rapidity. If today every paper, which has ever been published by students in our American colleges, were in existence, the number would astonish the most credulous. But the law of Malthus operates just as effectively in the domain of literary effort, as it does in the material world about us; there has always been a tendency for college papers to increase faster than the means...
...interest in the general subject of political philosophy among Americans, has always been of the liveliest sort. It is undeniable, however, that there is, in proportion to this interest, a noticeably small amount of definite knowledge and hence of definite thinking on this subject among both the great public, and among men of broad education. In a practical way, instruction in the actual status of political systems is fairly adequate in this country. Just as in England, it has been said, interest attaches more to the history of the English constitution as a growing political system, so in the United...
...stimulus and co-operation. The courses in history, 12 in number, cover the ground of (1) The General Institutional History of Europe, (2) The Political and Constitutional History of England, and (3) of the U. S., a including special seminar for the study of Constitutional Questions in English and American History. There is also a special seminar in American Finance and in methods of Local Government in Europe and America. In Economic Science there are six courses including one on the History of Industrial Society and on Taxation (by Judge Cooley). The subject of Political Ethics embraces courses...
...Adams on the Modern State System. The graduate instruction by the seminar method, aiming at thorough and original work in some special line, varies somewhat from year to year. There are courses in the History of Politics, on Finance and Taxation. and on Methods of Administration. The Seminary of American History and Economics during the present year is engaged in investigations in (1) American Institutions of Government, (2) History of Political Economy in the U. S., and (3) Representative State Constitutions. The investigation last year included American Institutions and Economic and American Colonial History. A voluntary Political Science Association also...
...will perhaps be interesting to compare with these American schools the instruction offered at the Free School of Political Science in Paris. The course is for two years, extending from November to June. Instruction is divided into four sections, Administrative, Diplomatic, Economic and Financial, and the General Section. The latter department would doubtless be of most value to the American student, as the aim of the others is more confined, being chiefly directed to fit for the civic and diplomatic service of France. In this section, devoted to Public Law and History, the instruction includes: Comparative Civil Legislation, (by Prof...