Word: branches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...resemble that in vogue at Harvard. The central college building is located on a hill over-looking the lake and college grounds. The views from its windows are very fine. This building has a large court in its interior arranged after the manner of the Roman atrium from which branch off the various corridors, officers and reception rooms. The building is several stories high, and terminates unexpectedly with the art-room under its eaves. The college museum is not one half as interesting as the trunk-rooms. The trunks of the students, "as much as five thousand...
...have already applied for admission to the course for next year. It is to be regretted, however, that the number had to be limited to only twenty-one, as by this rule a great many persons are prevented from receiving the benefits of a course in oral discussion, a branch of instruction with which everyone should be familiar. As over thirty seniors have already handed in their names for the course, and as preference is rightly given to seniors over juniors, there is apparently small chance for any junior getting an opportunity to take the course...
...Ecole des hautes etudes is run on the German Seminar system. The subjects taught are Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Natural History and Physiology, Historical and Philological Science, and Economic Sciences. Original work is carried on in every branch and competent men supervise this work. No age, grade or nationality is required for admission, but the candidates are taken on trial for three months and are then reported to the minister and the permanent committee. The course is three years in length. For students in natural history and physiology, there are scientific excursions directed by the professors; for men taking mathematics...
...ideal perhaps as little as any college in America, with possibly one exception, and that in the department of historical study so notably patronized by President Eliot, her position is that of a leader. Already the fame of the college in attracting the more serious students of the higher branches has been largely increased by the widespread reputation of its history department. With eighteen regular courses, and eight instructors entirely devoted to this specialty, besides the collateral instruction in history given to a considerable extent in courses in the ancient and classical languages, in ancient art and in political...
...always been a subject of regret, however, that better opportunities could not be offered to students who desired to pursue some special branch here at Harvard, but for pecuniary reasons were unable to do so. With the exception of the scholarships, which are confined almost exclusively to undergraduates, very little pecuniary aid can be offered by the college itself to students who desire to attend some special courses without becoming members of the college proper. The founding of these Morgan fellowships has in a great measure removed this difficulty, as by the regulations which attend their disposal they...