Word: directous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting tonight Mr. Edward Cummings, of the political economy department, will speak of the intensely interesting university extension work by which English university graduates are seeking to bring the advantages which they have themselves enjoyed within reach of the less fortunate masses. Mr. Cummings comes fresh from direct contact with this work and participation in it. He has studied the problem which they are endeavoring to solve in England and on the continent, and he has doubtless formed some interesting opinions on the methods which are being pursued. It is a subject in which every college man in America should...
...appoint police unless he was subservient to the liquor dealers. All saloon keepers have to give bonds that they will not break the stringent laws enacted against the liquor traffic. Two years ago more than half of these bonds in Boston were held by sixteen men. The shops direct the politics of those who frequent them, and these sixteen men in turn direct the politics of the shops. They thus control the local politics of Boston, and constitute an oligarchy far more dangerous to this common wealth than any man like Caesar or Napoleon ever will be. The open...
That the main subject for discussion before the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, which met in Cambridge on Friday and Saturday, was "The advisability of shortening the course preparatory for college" is a direct tribute to President Eliot, who first brought the subject to the attention of the association. This question is directly connected with that other great question which has been so hotly debated, whether the requirements for the degree of A. B. should not be lessened. In opening the discussion on the question before the association last Friday President Eliot made the point that what those...
...squad. We have no doubt that it is hard for him to appoint a substitute; and it may be equally hard for the eleven to choose a successor. But however difficult the problem, Ninety two should find some way to settle matters very speedily and get one man to direct their foot ball work both on and off the field...
...could complete a university education at the age of 21, in Germany at 22, and in the United States at 26. By "university education" meant a training in one of the professional school. In Europe the step from the secondary or preparatory schools into the universities is direct, while in the United States there is an intermediate step in the colleges. In this country there are two roads leading from high schools to professional schools, either through or around the college. Very few of the present high schools fit men for college; the high school curriculum is complete in itself...