Word: older
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...employment of a physician to regulate the exercise of undergraduates and look after their condition have long been appreciated at Amherst, and the example set has been followed at Harvard. Questions relating to ventilation and sanitary arrangements of dormitories have excited of late years an interest formerly unknown. The older buildings at Harvard and Yale have suffered from the existence of defects which have been remedied as far as possible, although the perfect ventilation of recitation rooms remains in some of these structures an unsolved problem. But the newer buildings at these colleges and at Columbia embody the application...
...education is under experiment in some colleges, and in due time the result will appear. In the older colleges it would require some re-organization. In the colleges where it is under trial the women are in a considerable minority. If a new college could be opened, or an old one, with an equal number of both sexes, and with a flexible curriculum and other adaptations to the proposed new order, I should be glad to see the experiment fairly tried. I can only say that I am glad that there is no call for us to undertake...
...former plan, it may be remarked, that includes Harvard's ideal of an American university. Towards the realization of such a plan she has already advanced a long way. In many respects her position at present is one of transition; her course but marks the change from the older to the newer methods of instruction - from college to university life...
...legitimate advertisement, for the university that follows upon this plan is a matter of no small account. As the Western States grow in wealth and in opportunities for higher education within their own borders, it will be but natural that they will more and more turn to the older and more thoroughly organized institutions of the East, and, we may hope, more particularly to Harvard as the completest representative of the university ideal in this country...
Most of the societies live and board together; the older ones own houses, and none but the most insignificant are without some sort of a habitation. These houses supply many conveniences which students usually are compelled to do without. Moreover they lessen the expense of living to their inhabitants, especially where the chapter owns the house...