Word: independente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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On December 20th, 1881, circulars were issued by a committee of the institute setting forth a "project for the creation at Athens of an American School of Classical Literature, Art and Antiquities, upon the plan of the well-known French and German schools already established there," a project which had...
In the matter of teaching, the Scotch universities are much like American colleges. The methods are catechetical; teaching is regarded as more important than examinations; prizes are in vogue and exercise great influence. In Scotland, prizes are usually awarded by vote of the students. Practically the system works better than...
The following, from the New York Independent, puts Oscar in his true light : "Mrs. Julia Ward Howe really seems very naive in her expression that as `the representatives of tender hope and divine compassion,' women can properly associate with and patronize Oscar Wilde. 'Tender hope and divine compassion' are not...
The Yale News proposes that to vary the monotony of the present system of study, a one-hour lecture be held on the matter contained in some one of the best New York morning papers, in place of the ordinary recitations. The News editor maintains that as a good newspaper...
The experiment which the university has tried of late years of inviting prominent specialits, either professors at other institutions or independent scholars, to deliver university lectures before the students is, we believe, proving itself a success. It is certainly an innovation that gives great promise for the future in broadening...