Word: arbor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Evening Post of Dec. 15, has a long letter from Princeton on the proposed changes in the curriculum. The same number contains a comparison of the elective systems of Cornell, Harvard and Ann Arbor...
...experience of all students who are candid with themselves, must lead them to oppose exact numerical marking. Princeton, Pennsylvania, Ann Arbor, and Johns Hopkins, have discarded it, adopting grading by classes. Why is Harvard so backward? Why is it that this college dedicated to truth clings with such tenacity to an outgrown institution? The students should raise a voice condemning this evil. And this voice should be heard in the conference with no uncertain sound. The resolution which was tabled expressing a foregone conclusion, should have been passed, and ought certainly to be passed at the next meeting. With this...
Canon Farrar lectures to the students at Ann Arbor...
...faces of so many likely young men, because I know that a large number will be driven to the wall." Also: "Young men, unless you know you have a special adaptation to some branch of the law, the sooner you sell your books and get out of Ann Arbor the better it will...
...University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is much disturbed. A policeman interfering with a crowd of students recently, was badly hustled. On two students being jailed, over 900 men assembled in the streets and jeered the mayor and police. The offenders have been released, but excitement reigns supreme...