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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...RINGWALT and W. S. YOUNGMAN.Best general references: James Freeman Clarke in Christian Register: Educ. Rev. VIII, 471 (Dec. 1894); Forum III, 631 (Aug. 1887); George Santayana in Educ. Rev. VII, 313 (Apr. 1894); Century III, 683; Forum XVII 582 (July...
Bruce Fink, S.B. Univ. of III. 1887, S.M. Ibid. 1894; first year Graduate School; Botany...
...III. A shorter course would be advantageous to the students. - (a) The average age of graduation has now risen too high. - (b) Opportunity to save a year would be welcomed by many men. - (1) Preparing for professions. - (2) Possessing little means. - (3) Intending to enter business career. - (c) Other men might take regular four years course or enter graduate school. - (1) More serious work can be done there...
...III. If the course is too long it may be better shortened elsewhere than by dropping one of the four years of college. - (a) Our present system of preparation is radically bad. - (1) In primary education: Addresses and Proceedings of N. E. Assoc. of Colleges, Oct. 16, 1891. - (2) In the preparatory schools: D. C. Welles, Andover Rev. Jan. 1892. - (b) German and French boys know more than we require for entrance at a much younger...
...III. Widow Perkins's Kid. L. W. Mott...