Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject of co-education at the University of Michigan, our correspondent writes: "The attitude of the authorities and students at Ann Arbor, is, so far as I know, favorable. Doubtless among the faculties and students of the various departments there are those who are opposed to the system, but they are in the minority by a "large majority." The ladies who have graduated from here, are many of them holding prominent positions at various points. Six members of the present faculty of Wellesley College, including the president, are graduates of this university. A comparison of the number this year with...
...spreading results. Any changes that might follow will of course be very gradual, but for that reason will be all the more far-reaching. Harvard thus far has represented one type of college life, the exact opposite of which is represented by such an institution as the University of Michigan. The difference between the two types is expressed very inadequately by saying that at the one student life and ways of thinking have acquired certain common characteristics from the mere fact of the dormitory system, while at the other this element of college feeling is entirely lacking. How great...
Justin Windsor, of the Harvard library, has been invited to deliver an address at the coming dedication of the new library building of the University of Michigan...
Complaint is being made that the one instructor in elocution at Harvard is not enough to go around. If the authorities will furnish us a piece of one as a curiosity for the museum we will be content for a time. - [Michigan Argonaut...
...rumored that the faculty of the University of Michigan intend to abolish the examination system at that college...