Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difficult to understand how chemistry and physics and the other sciences were taught. When Professor Cooke was first appointed a full professor he was unusully young and unexperienced, but it was owing to his zeal and energy that the first chemical laboratory was instituted. It was in the northwestern basement of University Hall, the northeastern basement being occupied by a baker's shop. Professor Cooke first ousted the baker in extending his laboratory, and a year or two later obtained more convenient quarters upstairs, effecting many of these improvements at his own expense. A few years later...
...Weekly has selected an all-Western eleven chosen from the five teams which have played in Chicago during the season of '95, as follows: ends, Senter, Mich., and Harrison, Minn.; tackles, Henenger, Mich., and Villa, Mich.; guards, Hall, Mich., and Larson, Minn.; centre, Allen, C.; halfbacks, VanDusen and Potter, Northwestern; fullback, Bloomington, Mich...
...Thanksgiving Day. The Chicago team is making every effort to get together a strong team for the occasion, as this is to them the great game of the season. Manager Cornish is trying to secure Heffelfinger and several of the best players in Beloit, Lake Forest and other northwestern colleges...
...Northwestern University is said to have the largest attendance of any college in the country, after Harvard and Michigan...
...school since the association was organized: Up to 1886 the Langdell system of study had not been adopted in any other law school. Since 1886 it has been introduced, to a greater or less extent, in the following named law schools: Columbia, New York; Metropolis, New York; Northwestern University, Chicago; Leland Stanford, Jr., University, California; and Iowa State University. The collections of select cases to be used in connection with instruction have been introduced also in seven other American law schools. The number of students at the Harvard Law School, for six years prior to the academic year 1886, averaged...