Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual report of President Barnard on the condition of Columbia College has just been published. The part referring to the graduate department is of special interest to Harvard, as Columbia, in this branch, is the only American college which can at present compete with our own University. Columbia is now considering the advisibility of raising the whole scheme of education to a higher plane, to give more attention to the advanced students than to those in the other departments...
...door life and sport. College men will take particular interest in "The Progress of Athletism," by C. Turner, which is an account of the growth of ath etics in the English universities. The announcement is made of a series of similar articles on athletics in the leading American colleges, beginning with Harvard, in the next number. There are also sketches of "Base Ball in Australia," by Harry Palmer, and "The New York Yacht Club Cruise of '88," is well illustrated...
...publishers of the Magazine of American History are certainly to be congratulated on the excellence of the November number. The sequel of the "City of a Prince," which was begun in the Octorber number, is even more interesting than the first chapter. The contrast between this story and the next "Boston in 1741 and Governor Shirley" is exceedingly marked. "The Treaty of Ghent" by Hon. Thomas Wilson, is full of fresh information, and contain the picture of the house where the famous treaty was made. "A New France in New England" is a tale which will provoke discussion...
...great heart of Harvard University pulsating with its life of noblest activity, has been stirred to its very core within the last few days, by the appearance in the North American Review of an article professing to give an honest description of the habits of a certain class of men dwelling within the precincts of the University. Following as it does a series of attacks upon the good name of the University published in a number of daily papers, the article has aggravated the feeling among the students that Harvard is most unjustly dealt with by those who have...
...good name of a sister college; if he is not bound to any college by ties of allegiance, we cry shame upon him for the dastardly blow he has attempted to strike at the cause of higher learning. We include in our condemnation the editors of the North American Review because they have opened their columns to an article such as this. The magazine has been brought from its high place to the level of the most notorious metropolitan sporting papers. we include in our condemnation city papers like the Boston Evening Record, which devote their columns to the uses...