Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last annual report of President Barnard of Columbia College, there is an urgent appeal to make that college more exclusively an institution for graduate instruction. President Barnard speaks very strongly in favor of the plan, even going so far as to say that "it would not be educationally a misfortune if Columbia College should cease to exist as a school for undergraduate students." With this end in view it is proposed to add to the library books particularly designed for postgraduate courses. Under the subject of the "Library" the report says...
...library for purposes of superior instruction is becoming every year more and more felt, the necessity for an extension of its accommodations must necessarily occupy attention. The use of the library is continually increasing, so that it is not an infrequent occurrence to find it impossible to obtain even a seat. There seems to be considerable difference of opinion as to the kind of enlargement to be adopted, but it is greatly to be feared that no plan can be proposed which can provide adequately on the present site for all the various and increasing operations of the institution...
...occasion his long term of service which began eight years ago in October, when, as one of the clerical members of the Board of Overseers, he took charge of the chapel service for the month. Everybody remembers the great reluctance with which the resignation of Dr. Hale was accepted even after he had declared that it would be impossible for him to devote to the University in the future the time necessary to fulfill the duties which his position as one of the preachers to the University would impose upon him. Those who have come in contact with Dr. Hale...
...invented by Prof. Agassiz. The results of his study show that the changes of elevation have been very slow and slight, with very little disturbance of the strata, and that the eras of depositions, from the Eocene to the present time, have been marked by the same processes which, even now. may be observed in action...
...worthy of imitation in other branches. It marks the beginning of a movement which, it is to be hoped, will end in the partial or total abandonment of the much-dreaded finals and mid-years. In the foreign universities, the only examinations are those required for a degree; and even these are not answers to a paper, but consist of carefully prepared theses. In those courses here in which theses and special reports are required there is no excuse for the present system, and several instructors have already realized this to such an extent that they give no mid-year...