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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"As Others See Us" is a collection of clippings from various college papers on the football question. It presents in three pages what might have been presented in a column by judicious condensation. It may be of interest to those who do not see any outside college papers, but is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 12/16/1889 | See Source »

The letter in the Nation, extracts from which we publish today, advocating the abolition of intercollegiate athletics, contains in a concise form most of the objections to our present system. The writer, however, utterly fails to appreciate the arguments in favor of athletics. He claims that the prevention of provincialism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/13/1889 | See Source »

The result of these methods on the student is that he obtains no lasting specific results from much of his college course. On the other hand he could not devote as much time to a course in manual training "without retaining all his life some special power in the direction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pedagogy at the Universities. | 12/4/1889 | See Source »

To bring about this reform the scientific method is most effective. Reformers and would be reformers must sift the matter to the core, they must go to work and examine systems deemed defective. They must study the grievances and their causes, and they will then, and only then see the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Conference Meeting. | 11/13/1889 | See Source »

At this early season of the year we are crowded, overwhelmed with examinations and special written work. No sooner is the forensic brief handed in than there comes a thesis due in Philosophy so and so, and an hour examination in almost every course; in short we are surfeited with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/8/1889 | See Source »

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