Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these subjects slowly thin out. Harvard is already accused of perverting and vitiating the degree of Bachelor of Arts; and we should be loosen to lose the advantage we now hold of offering advanced specialized instruction in Classics and Mathematics superior to that of any other college in America...
...association has now entered upon a new life. The best track in America has been placed at its disposal by the aid of the placed at its disposal by the aid of the corporation and other subscribers. This entails a greater expense, and the large expenses for improved seats in the gymnasium and a debt of $1000 to the corporation, all of which our treasurer will probably have something to say about, make it necessary for the association to increase its receipts if possible. It might be well, therefore, to charge a higher price for admission to the winter meetings...
...tuition, and under competent direction. The school occupies a comfortable building in a pleasant quarter of the modern city, and possesses already an admirable working library of about one thousand volumes. "It is now supported by a confederation, so to speak, under the auspices of the Archaeological Institute of America, of fifteen of our chief colleges. This arrangement, though admirable as a temporary expedient and a pleasant novelty, in that it unites with a common interest so many of our centrifugal institutions of higher learning, would be unpractical as a permanent plan. When the utility of the school, as bringing...
...classes. Frequently he found young working men spending a year in college in scientific studies, who intended to resume their manual employment after leaving it. Among the New England institutions which describes, the Boston Institute of Technology is prominent. He says: "This institution worthily enjoys a high reputation in America. Its graduates enter into the scientific professions, and the engineering, mining and manufacturing industries without difficulty or delay. I have experienced this in the far West, among the miners, on railway works, in machine shops and in the textile manufactories...
...notice is also made of our Lawrence Scientific School which is commented upon favorably. Thus it will be seen that the technical and scientific schools of America compare very favorably with similar schools in Europe, although this is not generally supposed to be true...