Word: followed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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However much the smaller colleges may hesitate to follow Harvard in some of the liberal reforms, they seem unanimous in their desire to extend the elective system. The catalogue of Brown University for the current year, which has just been published, shows a largely increased list of electives. Instruction is now given in the Semitic languages and in Oriental history, in advanced Latin for lower courses, and in Zoology, Geology, and Botany. A course in classical Archaeology is also for the first time given to the senior class, and other students who desire to attend. German, which was once...
...discuss the present plan as if it proposed to reduce to college course to three years by cutting off the senior year. But it is the right and the duty of those who are asked to take a given step, to inquire what further steps are likely to follow the one proposed, and especially what is the intention of those who propose it. This is all the more necessary when the step involves the reversal of the long established policy of a great institution, so that an error, if made, cannot easily be corrected. No one who has followed...
...been a notable one and has enabled students and Cambridge people to obtain a clear conception of the German thought of a period which has had the utmost influence on the course of conleuporary reasoning; a period without the full comprehension of which it is almost impossible to follow the intricate processes of the philosophers of today...
...short history and the second an appendix which is equal to the preceding part in length and value. The first chapter treats of the fundamental conceptions of the state and sovereignty, of nonfederal relations between states, and of the nature classification and political conditions of federal governments. Then follow short sketches of the ancient and mediaeval confederations and more detailed accounts of the four principal federations of today, the United States, Switzerland, Germany and Canada. The chapter on the Latin-American confederations, giving brief notices of the leagues of this century in Central and South America, including the Brazilian Republic...
...sincerely hope that in the erection of this building the foremost thought will be to follow out those ideas in which Harvard students of art have for years been drilled. The words of the will, ornamental and appropriate," describing the museum, ought always to be borne in mind, to the end that at least we may have a building connected with the college to which, as a pleasing specimen of architecture, we may be referred. The buildings of our college yard have been severely criticised by able artists, but we hope that this new museum may be beautiful enough...