Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Butler has been invited to attend the Williams college commencement, but his excellency has not replied to the invitation. No doubt a cordial letter of acceptance was written last night, as the governor says in an interview that he now regards the Williams degree, "with the deepest sensibility." [Springfield Republican...
...reason why Harvard should not become in time equal to Berlin, but it will require years. The public as yet is indifferent. It does not see as clearly as it ought to the vital connection between the State and education in all stages, high as well as low." - [Interview in the Badger...
...interview with President White he informed your correspondent that his views on the subject of co-education have not been changed by experience. He says that its influence on student life is to make that life more decent; that co-education at Cornell is a success; and that sooner or later it will be the rule at all live educational institutions deserving of the name. Columbia will probably not adopt it until the dwellers at that unfortunate monastery emerge sufficiently from barbarism to give over duelling and other mediaeval practices...
Hamilton Fish, the president of the board of trustees of Columbia College, makes complaint, in a recent interview, that the claims of Columbia to popular notice in the shape of gifts of money have been overlooked. Mr. Fish says: "Columbia College has only had two gifts in the form of money, and one of them is of no avail yet. * * * There has been an occasional scholarship established; but compare this record with that of Harvard and other large colleges. They are constantly receiving large contributions...
...Newberry, in a New York Tribune interview, expresses himself warmly in favor of co-education in Columbia College. "For fifteen years" he says, "a few women have attended the lectures of Professor Rood and myself, and to reach our lecture rooms were compelled to traverse halls and stairways where they encountered a large number of students, and yet they were always treated with perfect respect, and their presence in the lecture rooms made the classes more quiet and attentive because it put them on their good behavior...