Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Clark, of Williams College, has gone on a trip to Europe, with a view of examining the methods of laboratory work in Oxford and Cambridge. He also intends to visit the German universities and then go to Naples, where the rest of his time will be spent. There his...
At Trinity-the chief college of Cambridge-most of the scholarships are open by competitive examinations to "all comers" of good character under nineteen years of age, and the winner of one of them must be a youth of no low order of scholarship as a long series of papers...
"Perhaps the most remarkable illustration of native teaching in Cairo is to be found in the university, which is established in what was formerly a mosque. This is the university of the Mohammedan world. Students come hither to avail themselves of its instruction not only from all parts of Egypt...
Mr. Thwing evidently has a high opinion of the average college paper, both as a "mirror of undergraduate sentiment" and as an "admirable training school for professional journalists," while he considers it of great service to the cause of higher education in "promoting inter-collegiate friendship and in exhibiting the...
Moreover, if the college keeps on growing without getting more such buildings, it will make a sad change in the character of the college life. Harvard college is a place to which a great many boys are sent, not so much for the sake merely of the studies as for...