Word: michigan
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...license with local option has proved the best check on the evils of the liquor traffic-Nation, 42, 52; e. q. (1) in Illinois-45, 363; (2) in Minnesota; (3) in Ohio; (4) in Missouri; (5) in Nebraska-Nation. 46, 25; (6) in Pennsylvania-Nation, 46, 83; (7) in Michigan-Nation, 46, 127; Nation...
...college presidents in the United States, Yale, Ohio, Wesleyan University and Oberlin, each graduated eight; Harvard, Union, Princeton, Amherst, Washington and Jefferson, and Wesleyan, each six; Dartmouth, Brown, and Hameden-Sidney, each five; Michigan, Virginai, and De Pauw Universities, each four; Bowdoin, Dickinson, Rochester, Bethany and Pennsylvania colleges, each three. Nearly one-half of the number of colleges are non-sectarian. Of the denominational colleges 41 are Methodist Episcopal, 36 Baptist, 24 Presbyterian, 14 Congregational, 9 Christian, 8 Lutheran and 7 Episcopalian. Forty-three of the presidents were educated at the college over which they preside. One hundred...
...scanty provision for instruction in these two subjects. In two out of fourteen selected colleges for women, it was found that American history had no assigned place; in three, one course in it is given; in four, two courses; in three, three courses, and in two, Cornell and Michigan, four courses. "In eight of the fourteen institutions referred to there is no study of American institutions, except incidentally for purposes of illustration. Courses in political economy are offered in all; in many American topics hold the leading place; in others they scarcely enter, the subject being treated from the theoretic...
...following colleges have reported more than 1,000 students: Harvard, 1790; Columbia, 1489; University of Michigan, 1475; Yale, 1,134; Northwestern, 1100; University of Penn...
...professors, instructors, etc., is that of Harvard with 62 professors, instructors and lecturers in the collegiate department. [In this respect Prof. Bryce is mistaken. According to the Catalogue for 1888-89, Harvard College has 95 professors, instructors and lecturers.] Columbia comes second with 50; Johns Hopkins, 49; University of Michigan, 47; Yale, 46; Princeton, 39. The salaries paid to professors at American universities and colleges are very small when compared to the general wealth of the country and the cost of living. The highest are those in Columbia, a few of which exceed $5,000 a year. In Harvard, Yale...