Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This system has been at work for five or six years, and is said to have produced most satisfactory results. It is greatly to be regretted that the other great American universities have been unable to follow this unique example set by the University of Michitgan, for the most prominent authorities on educational matters in this country are of opinion that it is only a national preparatory school system, intimately connected with the prominent universities, such as is exemplified in the German gymnasia, that will bring American univeristies to that unequalled state of excellence to which German universities have attained...
...worshipped it; and we, their descendants, in the ninth generation, upon whom greater lights have arisen, still worship at the same shrine. A position of academically equality with Greek, Latin and mathematics is demanded for those later studies which have proved to be a necessity to a liberal education. American colleges to an extent that is ridiculous neglect some of the most important studies outside of the classics and mathematics. Dartmouth has no teacher of history, "whether professor, tutor, or temporary instructor." Princeton has only one professor of history, and he includes political science with history in his teaching. Yale...
...more than twenty men are admitted in a year, according to the regulations, but an American student would not find much difficulty in obtaining entrance. The instruction is in the hands of seven professors and a secretary...
...large variety of rifles, but as yet not one has been produced which in every respect satisfies the requirements of the "perfect hunting rifle." Improvements are, however, continually being made, and it is probable that, in time, such a rifle will be produced. The great trouble with American rifles is their low velocity. Every rifle yet made of long range and of great penetration, seems to have been at a proportionate loss of its short-range efficiency. At one hundred and fifty and two hundred yards, the average distance of game shorts, it is important that the trajectory should...
...prominent society man has failed to be elected worthy of the honor. Some detractors of the system say that the societies tend to keep the non-society men from coming back to commencements and other reunions after graduation. The writer has collected statistics from the secretaries of several leading American colleges, and these show that the number of graduates at the Yale commencements is larger relatively than at any other college. This is attributed to the enthusiasm and strong class feeling, which the societies assisted in forming and keeping alive. The discussion concludes as follows: The advantages of the societies...