Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...America in 1863, and is true to-day. In its origin, the University of Michigan is at once a national and State institution. It owes its existence primarily to the far-sighted national policy, first declared in the ordinance of 1787, whereby it was provided for the great Northwestern Territory that "schools and the means of education should forever be encouraged." This principle was reasserted upon the organization of the Territory of Michigan in 1804-05, and took a practical form in the reservation by act of Congress of a township of land for the support of a university...
...Elaborate preparations are being made for the forty-first annual convention of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, to be held in Chicago, Oct. 19 and 20, with the Northwestern Alumni Association. Delegates from thirty-one different colleges and thirteen alumni associations will be present at this reunion, and the outlook now is that this will be the largest and most important gathering of college men, graduates, and undergraduates that Chicago has ever seen. The convention committee, of which Tracy C. Drake, Grand Pacific Hotel, is secretary, has nearly completed all the necessary arrangements, and announces the following programme...
...school will open on July 6th at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, where a fortnight will be spent in introductory work and in short daily excursions. The remainder of the six weeks' session will be divided between the Connecticut Valley, the Hoosac Valley and vicinity, in northwestern Massachusetts, and the foothills of the Catskill mountains in eastern New York. Some central, characteristic point in each district, easily accessible by railroad, will be taken for headquarters and short excursions made from it. The plan of the school, so far as it can now be stated, is as follows...
...Yale News says of Cornell co-education: "there have lately been some remarkably fierce feuds raised between the sophomore and freshman classes of the Northwestern University, which is a co-educational institution. It was begun by the sophomores locking the freshmen up and keeping them away from their class sleigh-ride and banquet. Several rushes of the male members of the classes took place after this, and among the female portion a lively hair-pulling contest was inaugurated. Last Thursday afternoon the freshmen retaliated by capturing several sophomores just as the entire class was about to start on a sleigh...
...increase with the advance of years, and proves the wisdom of the board of trustees in not accepting the resignation which Dr. McCosh presented to that body two years ago. During the past month, the venerable President has assisted at the organization of two important alumni associations - one in northwestern Pennsylvania and one in Brooklyn. This week he delivers a lecture in the Phillips Academy course at Exeter, on "The Influence of Habit in College Training." - Evening Post...