Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Brown University had a narrow escape from losing its ancient Hope College and Manning Hall by fire on Tuesday afternoon. A janitor discovered a lively blaze in the basement of Hope College in a large waste-paper bin. A general alarm was sent out; but before aid arrived the fire had reached the roof. Eight rooms were burned out, the roof was burned, and all the other rooms in the building were soaked. The loss is about $5000 to the corporation and $1500 to the students. The losses are covered by insurance. Hope College is the oldest of the Brown...
Their work has proved that the class of special students can be made to do as effective honest work, as is done by any portion of the University; and that, in general, the instructors are able and ready to give personal interest to the students, and to minister to their individual needs. Three hundred and sixty-four persons received the degree of A. B., of whom 47 were not registered as seniors...
...student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the hour appointed for the examination shall not be admitted without permission of the instructor or of the officer in general charge of the examinations...
...work in every state give at firsthand information that contains much encouragement, but much discouragement also. The excessive size of classes, the instability of great masses of teachers, the insecurity of their positions, in some communities the petty political and religious interference-these "confessions" are startling and shocking. A general summary of the results of this interesting inquiry by Professor G. Stanley Hall will appear in The Atlantic Monthly for March...
...subject of the public school work. There is need of a higher degree of efficiency in teachers in many states, but there is still greater need of a keener appreciation on the part of the public of the teachers' work and the difficulties under which they labor. In general it may be said that every community has the kind of public schools that it deserves to have...