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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...protest is supported by vigorous articles by Professor Max Muller, E. A. Freeman and Frederic Harrison. All are severe in their denunciation of the evil tendencies of the competitive system; but perhaps Professor Harrison more boldly attacks the system than the others when he declares that it "is bullying, spoiling and humiliating education. Examination papers, not textbooks, have come to be the real objects of study. The system of distinction and prizes is absurdly overdone. Art, learning, politics and amusements are deluged with shows, races, competitions and prizes. Life is becoming one long scramble of prize winning and pot hunting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Sacrifice of Education to Examination." | 2/7/1889 | See Source »

...gave responses, but they were no longer true, and in Athens' wars they favored the enemies of Attica. Two hundred years after Christ, the last word concerning Delphi was heard, and from that time until comparatively lately it has remained buried in the deepest obscurity. In 1840, Dr. Ottfield Muller went to the site of Delphi and his work showed the opportunity for discovery and research among the ruins. Twenty years later another attempt at discovery was made by the French. America had no hand in the work until some eleven years ago Gen. Meredith Read, the United States Minister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Norton's Lecture. | 1/30/1889 | See Source »

...eight hundredth anniversary the University of Bologna conferred degrees on Gladstone, Spencer, Huxley, Lowell, Renan, Jebb, Max Muller, David Dudley Field, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Profs. Cayley, Adams, Agassiz, and many others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/11/1888 | See Source »

...winning team alone will receive prizes. Yale will send men to the games and will be represented in the dashes and in the hurdle race. Yale, Princeton and Columbia are already entered for the tug-of-war. Entries for the games may be sent to A. H. Muller, Box 137, New York, before March 29. The entrance fee is fifty cents for each event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Games at Brooklyn. | 3/20/1888 | See Source »

Rooms for English A examination to-day are as follows: Adler-Baldwin in Sever 1; Ballou-Brooks in Sever 5; Buffum-Cummings in Sever 6; Cumnock-Finlay in Sever 17; Fiske-Halliday in Sever 24; Hamburger-Johnson in Sever 30; Jones-Muller in Sever 35; Neill-Valle in Sever 37; Wainwright-Wynne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/11/1888 | See Source »

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