Word: lates
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...February 1. A series of lectures on economic and constitutional history has been begun by E. W. Bemis, Ph. D., professor in Johns Hopkins University, and will be continued throughout the term. A new physical laboratory has been fitted up and placed under the charge of Professor John Daniel, late of Johns Hopkins. This is a new feature in the history of the institution, and supplies what has long been pressing. Preparations are already being made to receive the delegates of the American Educational Association, which is to hold its next meeting in Nashville, early in July...
...rules; but it is a gross injustice to put more than a very small minority of college men in this class. The average collegian, though he may fall far short of his responsibility, is yet a better man for having had it imposed upon him, and college is quite late enough to learn of this responsibility. The student with a foundation of manliness cannot, except unjustly, be made to suffer for the student who if he is maintained now by an artifice system of props, will nevertheless fall as soon as he leaves colleges and is brought in contact with...
...changes have been made of late in the arrangements of the 'varsity crew. Three more men have gone into regular training-Alexander, L. S., Clark, '91, and Perkins, '89-making the number now at work fifteen. The tank fills the expectations of the management, although there are still some drawbacks in its working. The lowering of the water from twenty-eight to twenty inches has proved a slight improvement, but the crew are unable as yet to pull more than twenty strokes a minute without over-exertion. The difficulty might, perhaps, be obviated were the men supplied with oars especially...
...arousing a great deal of interest in England, and has also attracted much attention on this side of the water; and it may well do so, for it is upon a subject-the merits and demerits of the present examination system, which has been much discussed among us of late, and is one of the problems which American educators must next solve. The discussion originated in a protest against the system of competitive examinations which appeared in the Nineteenth Century. This protest was signed by some of the most distinguished educators of the English universities and schools...
...professorship of physical culture, with an endowment of ten thousand dollars, is to be established at Amherst in memory of the late Henry Ward Beecher...