Word: michigan
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...teaching itself. The constant effort to seek out and put into practice better methods of instruction, or methods more in keeping with the needs of the time, has been pre-eminently a characteristic of the present administration at Harvard. This was well pointed out by President Angell of Michigan in his after-dinner speech at the Harvard celebration last November. He alluded to the debt that all American colleges owe to the old university for the bold spirit of experiment that has led to the recognition of the difference in value between the traditional, customary, and conventional methods, inherited from...
...Science, and not to the undergraduate, which is a subordinate feature. In 1879 Dr. H. C. Adams (fellow in political economy, Johns Hopkins, 1876-8) was appointed instructor in political economy. He retained the position, however, for only one year, accepting in 1880 a call to the University of Michigan, where he is now the professor of political economy. His place was soon filled. In the fall of 1880, at the earnest recommendation of President Andrew D. White and others, Dr. Ely was appointed lecturer in political economy. In 1881 Dr. Scott resigned to take a professorship in Rutgers College...
...Catholic priest, 65 years old, has just matriculated in the junior class of the Law School of Michigan University. - Princetonian...
Prof. Edward Oakley, LL. D., the eminent mathematician, was found dead in his bed Sunday morning from heart disease. He was the author of numerous and generally used works on mathematics. For the last thirty years he has been professor of mathematics in the University of Michigan...
...University of Michigan will celebrate its 50th anniversary next spring. It has almost as many students as Harvard although it is five times as young...