Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: George Santayana in Educational Review, VII, 313 (April, 1894); Josiah Royce in Scribner's Magazine X, 376 (September, 1891); President Eliot's Report for 1880-81; C. F. Dunbar in the Harvard Graduates' Magazine II, 449 (June, 1894); C. E. Norton in Four American Universities...
...university affords the undergraduate better preparation in regard to the actual learning it gives him.- (a) The range of studies he may pursue is larger: Four American Universities, 26 fg.- (1) As is shown by comparison of the courses offered by Harvard with those offered by Amherst or Williams.- (b) The student is afforded better facilities for the pursuit of one course of study in its higher branches: Educational Review VII, 26; Graduates' Magazine, I, 48-49; President Eliot's Report for 1891-2; Four American Universities. p. 26 fg.- (1) He has better equipped libraries and laboratories...
...Graduates' Magazine II, 468.- (1) It tends to break down conventional dogma.- (2) It accustoms the student to think for himself.- (c) It increases the student's self-reliance and self-respect: Educational Review, VII, 26, 325; Graduates' Magazine, II, 468; Harvard Monthly, XV, 93; Four American Universities, 17 fg.- (1) It throws him upon his own resources.- (2) He is treated as a man and not as a schoolboy.- (d) The accompanying lack of enthusiasm is but a cover for a maturity and balance: Educational Review, VII, 325.- (1) The apparent coldness comes from a mental perspective...
...Bennett Prize, offered for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest, has not yet been awarded. It is open only to members of the senior class and to special students in their third or fourth year who have taken courses in Political Science and English Literature. This prize does not expect so much expert knowledge or depth of research as the others...
Seminary of American History and Institutions. Salmon P. Chase as an Anti-Slavery Man. Mr. C. E. Ozanne. University...