Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...correspondent of the Woman's Journal writes concerning the Harvard Annex...
...That a journal of the importance and influence of the Nation should express its condemnation of the present elective system of studies is a matter of concern to all the friends of Harvard. The editor of the Nation believes that an unrestrained and perfectly free elective system is unwise, just as much as an iron-bound and unyeilding system of prescribed studies is unwise. An elective system by complete courses or groups, - where each one at the beginning chooses a certain group of studies, all bearing towards one general end, is best. The Harvard system is, therefore...
...accordance with numerous requests, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes' farewell address is to be printed in full, and it will appear in this week's issue of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, revised by Dr. Holmes himself...
...especially worthy of condemnation. Possibly, if the boys and girls were in the same institution, the latter would content themselves with giving five-o'clock tea parties and similar entertainments. It is only when women isolate themselves from men that they try to imitate manly foibles. - [Woman's Journal...
...suggestions in the matter previously advanced by any of the original advocates of the scheme. The suggestions it makes are certainly novel, but well worthy of consideration. The objects of the association, it says, it understands would be as follows: "First, the elevation of the tone of college journalism, not only by the mental friction among the magazines and papers enlisted in the association from the first, but by the stimulus to all others implied in the fact that subsequent admission to its ranks will depend only upon literary merit. Upon this latter point, to our thinking, the success...