Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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LAST March two letters from an American in China appeared in the Boston Advertiser, advocating the establishment of a teachership of the Chinese language at Harvard. We congratulate the College on the early accomplishment of the plan. A Professor of Chinese has been sent here by a private subscription of...
SEVERAL of our professors have entertained parties of students during the past year, and we hope that they feel well enough satisfied with the experiment to make it a custom in future. The number of students who have been favored is comparatively small; but such social advantages would be valuable...
CO-EDUCATION does not seem to be a success at Cornell. At the present time there are but 403 students of both sexes in attendance, and of these 350 are young men, against about 700 when the experiment began.
WE are glad to see so many changes for the better in the Elective Pamphlet for next year. The most important change, of course, is the giving up of most of the required work and the substitution of elementary electives in its place. We sincerely hope that the success of...
THE proposed American Henley now seems likely to receive a trial under very favorable circumstances next July. The letters which we have published from "A Yale Graduate of '69" have given a very full account of the project and its claims to the support of college oarsmen. We regret that...