Word: among
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matters now stand. But will not all be in favor of proposing to Princeton a close triple league, and accompanying this proposition with the definite threat of a dual league in case they decline. And of course Princeton would not decline. For they are especially sensitive about being classed among secondary colleges...
...higher instruction there has been no advance in methods, "no universally recognized step in the science and art of teaching," that will compare with the improvement of methods in public school instruction. And the reason for this he finds in the lack of any fundemental law of pedagogy among college professors. College professors are free-lances and when they are successful teachers it is ascribed to their individuality rather than to the correctness of their methods; in consequence the value of their example is lost on their less successful fellow-teachers...
...Among the holiday books brought out by the Scribners is "Aspects of the Earth," by Professor N. S. Shaler...
Charles O. Baird, of Philadelphia has given $6000 to Princeton college, from the income of which the following prizes will be given to members of the senior class who excel in oratorical exercises: The Baird prize of $100 to the best speaker of those who have ranked among the best six writers in any two of the departments of English literature, rhetoric and oratory; a prize for oratory of $50 to the best speaker exclusive of the Baird men; a prize for delivery of $30 to the next best speaker; also a prize of $50 for the best poem...
...Yale have in an unsportsmanlike manner agreed to make a combine or trust and play exclusive football between themselves, the Philadelphia Item has decided to offer a silver football valued at $250, as a trophy for competition, emblematic of the intercollegiate football championship of America, open for competition among all colleges of America, Harvard and Yale barred...