Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American students will henceforth find in France educational attractions as great as those which they find in Germany...
This has been effected by the reforms of the licence-es-science, a degree which must be taken before the doctorate. American students have hitherto frequented Germany almost exclusively, because of the liberty the universities of that country offer in the choice of studies, in permitting a change of university and in requiring no examinations excepting when the student applies for a degree...
...recent decree introduces all the best features of the German system into the French faculties of science. Hereafter a student will be admitted to these faculties on an American bachelor's degree, and will be permitted to choose his studies. After pursuing any scientific course a year, he can, if he wishes, apply for an examination in this branch, and if successful obtain a certificat d'etude. Three such certificates, taken, for instance, say, in calculus, pure mechanics and astronomy, will make him a licencie, and he can then secure the French doctorate, which is decidedly superior to the German...
...American branch committee has been formed under the presidency of Professor Simon Newcomb, of Washington. On its list are the names of Mr. William T. Harris, head of the United States Bureau of Education; the presidents of Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Cornell and Columbia Universities, the University of Michigan, Mr. E. R. L. Gould, Mr. Carroll D. Wright, Mr. Andrew D. White and others...
...terms Dr. Hodges was an Overseer of the University. He was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of various other medical and social organizations. To medical literature he contributed two volumes, entitled, "Practical Dissections" and "The Excision of Joints," and many articles in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal...