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Word: characterizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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The extremely practical character of these schools is very remarkable. The diploma is not easy to gain, but when gained it signifies in ever-case practical ability joined to most elevated theoretical knowledge. To a teacher such a course of training would be invaluable. The French government has spent a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVANCED SCHOOLS OF FRANCE. | 6/7/1884 | See Source »

In defense of the society system, the writer says that the societies are put at a disadvantage in one respect, because they do not, and will not offer explanations to their assailants on account of this very secrecy. The objection to class societies that they tend to produce too great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOCIETY SYSTEM OF YALE. | 6/6/1884 | See Source »

It is an inevitable fact that almost every large institution, be it established in the interest of literature, science, or art, or be it purely educational in its aim, rapidly gains for itself some peculiar quality or name that stamp it among like institutions. Therefore it is not to be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD INDIFFERENCE. | 6/5/1884 | See Source »

The class of '84 has again to mourn the loss of one of its most esteemed members. For, in the death of Aaron Roger Crane, not only a class but the entire college has lost a friend. He died early on Wednesday morning from heart-disease. His death was as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/5/1884 | See Source »

The June Century is fully up to the standard of the other numbers which we have received. President Eliot discusses the question "What is a Liberal Education?" and tries to show that the sciences and English should be given leading places in the school and also in the college. An...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/24/1884 | See Source »

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