Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecture on the histories of various arts. President McCosh has consented to give a few lectures on aesthetics, and Prof. Osborne on the anatomy of facial expression. The college already possesses several valuable art collections. Among these are interesting collections illustrating the arts of Mexico, Peru and the North American Indians; some valuable Assyrian guns and Greek terra cotta heads; also, a number of art books and photographs...
...there can be no difference worth mention, between compulsory performance in one case, and in the other. Compulsory communion has long been given up in England, both for young and old, and people look back on it, now, with horror, as they will here, we have no doubt, in American colleges on compulsory prayer by mocking or sleepy youths...
...council of the American Archaeological Society met at Columbia college on Thursday. Professor Charles Eliot Norton was elected President for the coming year, Prof. Drisler of Columbia, Vice-President, and Dr. Frothingham of Johns Hopkins, Secretary. The president made a report of the work being done by the society...
...besides being the first American college planned by British Colonists, (it was in fact the first planned by British Colonists in any part of the world), it was the first to receive a Royal Charter, while in its actual establishment it yields to Harvard alone...
Alone among American institutions of learning, did it enjoy the privilege of electing a representative to the state legislature. The period of study as at Cambridge and Oxford covered 3 years. The first college building was planned by Sir Christopher Owen the architect of St. Pauls. Five years after the first commencement exercises held at the beginning of the last century, the building, with the library and physical apparatus, was destroyed by fire, at a time when the colonial legislature was holding its sessions in its walls, curiously co-incident with the fate that befell Harvard Hall in 1764. Unfortunate...