Word: english
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...November number of the Contemporary Review contains the lecture on "Teaching of English Law at Harvard," which Professor A. V. Dicey delivered last spring upon his return to England. In a most eulogistic manner he analyses the methods used at the Law School, and after showing that the students have been taught to live in a legal atmosphere by means of their clubs and magazine, draws some lessons from the workings which Oxford would do well to follow...
...perpetual challenge cup, and, as it was won last year by the English universities, it will be immediately sent abroad...
...actual size photograph on linen of the international chess trophy offered by Mr. Isaac L. Rice of New York has just been received by the Chess Club. The trophy, is a silver cup, having at its top the arms of England, with the English and American flags crossed below. Beneath, supported by two female figures, is a globe showing two hemispheres connected by a cable. Below the globe is represented the American eagle, and on a shield which forms the background of the whole are, on one side, the shields of the four American universities, and on the other those...
...Yale catalogue for 1899-1900 announces thirty new elective courses open to seniors and juniors. Ten of these are in philosophy, six in mathematics, six in modern languages, three in English, two in Greek, two in ancient history, and one in Assyrian. The complete enrollment in the academic department is as follows: Seniors, 326; juniors, 258; sophomores, 307; freshmen, 336; total, 1227; an increase of two over last year...
...Copeland will give the second of his series of lectures on "English Novelists" this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Sever 11. The topic will be "Smollett." Single admission tickets, costing 50 cents, may be obtained at the door...