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...collegiate or academic educations, and eighty put themselves down as having been trained at the common schools. The majority of collegiatebred men come from small country colleges, academies and seminaries, and many of them state that they have graduated at some noted law school, such as Harvard, Ann Arbor, or New York. Harvard has seven college graduates, Princeton four, the University of Virginia four, Bowdoin two, Dartmouth four, Union three, Yale two, Amherst two, Brown two, Ann Arbor five, Jefferson two, Franklin two, and numerous other colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/9/1886 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/17/1885 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/3/1885 | See Source »

Canon Farrar lectures to the students at Ann Arbor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/20/1885 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1885 | See Source »

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