Word: models
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...model of the statue of John Harvard, to be placed in the peak of the Delta at Cambridge, is finished. It is necessarily ideal, as no pictures or busts of the subject remain. [Gazette...
...college journal of the class to which we refer is our own Lampoon. Probably no college paper is so well known and so widely quoted. It is universally acknowledged the best of its kind, and other colleges have tried time and again to produce publications on exactly the same model. The natural supposition would be that a paper of so high a standard so peculiarly representative of college institutions, would never need to fear lack of support. But the contrary is the case. In spite of the numerous appeals made in its behalf, the Lampoon has not yet been assured...
...this state of affairs to the influence of the present policy of the faculty, and although it deprecates hazing, declares strongly in favor of some manifestations of college spirit. "We frankly admit that we do not admire the style of youth sans vim, sans enthusiasm, who would be a model in this modern school. The typical young man is enthusiastic, manly and generous, and a policy that destroys the material for class historians and crushes class enthusiasm and college precedent, will repel him from our doors. Our college authorities seem at present to be making an energetic...
...consideration to which they are entitled. Nature, an English scientific weekly journal, with an extensive circulation and of great influence, in a very favorable note congratulates the university on the progress it has made and the position it has attained. It holds up the Johns Hopkins as a model for the old universities of England to study in the pursuit of original research...
...building of the Columbia Law School has just been completed and is described as being a model in its way. Each professor has his private office and library, and the students are provided with large, well-ventilated and well-lighted recitation and lecture rooms. Great care and labor have been spent on the system of ventilation used. The building has been made as nearly fireproof as possible. The principal feature of the new school is the large and airy library therein, which is designed for all the departments of Columbia College as well as for the Law School...