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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...importance. Upsala has between eighteen and nineteen hundred students, Lund about a thousand, and Stockholm, the youngest, a considerably smaller number. Admission to Stockholm does not necessitate a knowledge of Greek or Latin, while at Upsala and Lund they are required. The two latter universities have a somewhat arbitrary curriculum, while Stockholm gives a man great freedom of choice in his studies for a degree. By this course, although the youngest, she bids fair soon to rival even Upsala in wealth and numbers. All three of the universities are open to both sexes, and at Stockholm there is a chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Life in Sweden. | 12/22/1885 | 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 »

...pamphlet issued by the faculty of the Lawrence Scientific School contains a considerable amount of matter not without interest to the college at large. It appears from this document that the curriculum has been so changed that the opportunities for a thorough education in engineering, chemistry, and the other branches of science, now offered by the school are equal to those to be had at the leading scientific schools throughout the country. When it is considered that students in the Scientific School have free access to the library, and enjoy all the privileges of the university, and when we remember...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/25/1885 | See Source »

...Scientific School pamphlet has appeared, and shows a greatly enlarged and improved curriculum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/24/1885 | See Source »

...interesting phase of the elective system was suggested by the casual remarks of one of our professors recently. The remark was to the effect that there was too great a tendency to choose the "practical" courses in the curriculum; that men were thus in danger of losing the peculiar benefit which a college education is supposed to impart. Considering the fact that the slurs of the country press are aimed at a supposed tendency towards the choice of Fine Art, Natural History, Spanish and Italian courses, the leaning towards the other extreme is worthy of comment. This is a phase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/12/1885 | See Source »

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