Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last summer a committee of the Harvard Graduate Club published a "Handbook of Graduate Courses for 1894-5." The Conference of Graduate Students, called to meet in New York last April, resolved to continue the publication, and the edition for 1895-6 is soon to appear from Macmillan & Co., of New York. The Handbook is being edited by a board of twenty-one graduate students representing Barnard, Brown, Bryn Mawr, California, Chicago, Clark, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Radcliffe, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Western Reserve, Wisconsin, and Yale. C. A. Duniway of Harvard, is editor...
...special features of the Handbook will be: (1) its complete lists of courses for advanced students offered in 1895-6 in the above named twenty-one institutions, arranged under the names of instructors giving the courses; (2) concise scholastic and literary biographies of all instructors giving graduate courses; (3) statements of fees and fellowships for graduate students, requirements for admission to graduate standing and for advanced degrees, numbers of students and instructors, resources and equipments of the universities...
...afternoon session it was decided that the association would assume responsibility for the publication of the handbook of graduate studies...
...principal objects of the conference is the compilation of an annual handbook in which the graduate courses of the several universities may be brought together in a form suitable for ready reference. Closely allied with this object is that of effecting a system of inter-migration between the universities, like that in vogue in Germany...
...CRIMSON has received a handbook from the Life Saving Society of which the Duke of York is president. The purpose of the society is to promote technical education in life saving and resuscitation of the apparently drowned. Another object is to stimulate public opinion in favor of the general adoption of Swimming and Life Saving as a branch of instruction in schools and colleges...