Word: follows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five o'clock the classes will assemble in the yard. The graduates will assemble at the same time, 5.15. The juniors enter the enclosure two by two, followed by the sophomores, freshmen and graduates in order. Each class will keep to the left; the juniors walking around the tree and occupying the northwest corner, and as far as the second window in Holden Chapel. The sophomores will follow, leaving a space of three feet between them and the juniors, and will sit in the south-west corner; and towards the juniors the freshmen will sit next, leaving three feet between...
...light for even a two mile pull. They lack the regularity of their university eight, but will have a week longer in which to prepare themselves The Yale crew are expected at their quarters on Wednesday, in time to see the Columbia-Harvard race, which they expect to follow in their own launch. In this way they will be able to form some idea of the style of rowing which their rivals pursue. Capt. "Bob Cook" will be with them as coach most of the time while they remain at the river. They are still imperfect in their new stroke...
This system has been at work for five or six years, and is said to have produced most satisfactory results. It is greatly to be regretted that the other great American universities have been unable to follow this unique example set by the University of Michitgan, for the most prominent authorities on educational matters in this country are of opinion that it is only a national preparatory school system, intimately connected with the prominent universities, such as is exemplified in the German gymnasia, that will bring American univeristies to that unequalled state of excellence to which German universities have attained...
...former at places of instruction like the Institute of Technology with its School of Mechanic Arts. There better facilities are offered for a technical education than could ever be found at a college or university. The country has need both of technical schools and of colleges. It does not follow, however, that the two must be consolidate. Each meets a separate want. To conbine them both would be to weaken each. There is no more reason why a practical education, in the sense of a mechanical education, should form a part of a university training than that military or naval...
...question is, "Where shall I go now?" So thinks the student who has completed his four years of college life. Many men are obliged to go into business, others seek experience in travel, but there are a few who find themselves able to follow out some line of study in which they are interested. It is for such men that the following brief description of the great French schools is intended. The German universities are a favorite resort for the ambitions, but there is a kind of training that they do not give, and that want is supplied...