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...continental universities which correspond to our four professional schools give the Doctorate in philosophy, law and medicine. In England all who practice as civilians are Doctors. The new law school of the University of Chicago, being a graduate school, will confer the Doctors' degree if Harvard decides to give that degree to the graduates in law. It is believed that their example would be followed by Stanford University and Columbia...
...published by the Lawrence Scientific School for the first time. Previously this department was considered a branch of the Division of Geology and was included in its pamphlet. The admission examinations for this are the same as for all other departments in the Scientific School and the courses practically correspond to those given last year in mining and metallurgy. Nearly all of the work is done in the Rotch Building which contains five different laboratories with equipments equal to any in the world. The building also contains the large library of Raphael Pumpelly, professor in the Scientific School from...
...considered together, Yale, which has been the most successful in the sports, has gained in the ten years a much smaller percentage than Princeton, so far as the college and scientific school freshman classes are concerned. In this table, however, the fluctuations in the size of the freshman classes correspond rather better with the fluctuations of victory and defeat than they do in the Harvard-Yale table. The figures for the scientific schools of Yale and Princeton cannot well be compared, because in 1894 the Sheffield Scientific School lost numbers temporarily on account of a distinct increase in its requirements...
...inner imaginative creation and moulds his production in every detail in accordance with it, while the camera worker can only what beauty he may find in nature. There is an element of selection in each case. The painter selects from the landscape only those elements that correspond to his imaginative ideal, while the photographer selects such a view as is in itself best arranged. The one selects all the details at will, the other such parts of nature as are best composed. Thus it is plain that the photographer labors at a great disadvantage because nature never composes as well...
...students of to-day exhibit a strong tendency to elect instruction in history and government, economics, philosophy including sociology, and education; and this tendency correspond with the views of their elders concerning the importance of these subjects. It is not the University which suggests these subjects to the students, it is the needs and aspirations of modern society which suggest them. Much the same may be said concerning the subjects of landscape architecture, and of mining and metallurgy. Modern society needs men highly trained in these subjects, and is prepared to re ward adequately men who excel in them...