Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students wishing to join classes for regular gymnasium instruction in tumbling or in work on the horizontal and parallel bars and on the flying rings are urged to sign the blue book at the gymnasium office at once. It is important that classes be formed at once if men are to be developed for the winter meetings...
...boat will be reproduced but there will be several new features, the principal result or which will be to make the shell lighter. The first point where a new idea comes in is in the space between the gunwale and the "rising." This piece of wood, which is parallel with the gunwale, usually stops at the cockpit but in the new plan it is carried to the end of the boat. Then the gunwale is to be made five pounds lighter. A thin brace is to be fixed across the square spaces and next to the ribs of the craft...
Corneille and Racine nationalized the classic forces of the Renaissance in France after Italy had ceased to feel their stimulus. Rousseau was the first to start the new Romantic Movement. Parallel to Rousseau sprang up the new regime in Germany which ever was under stronger bonds with the middle ages than other nations. The result of this movement was the study of everything Mediaeval by Grimm and Uhland with a view to tracing all modern ideals to an orgin in a national folk lore. When the Romantic impulse for these studies died, and the modern idea of science for sciences...
...Michigan, which includes all the students who are registered at Harvard in the college, scientific school and graduate departments, there were last year just 16 men from the New England States; and from these States together with New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey there were 60 men. In the parallel departments at Harvard there were last year from the strictly Western States 247 men; from these states and New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey there were 513 men. It is unnecessary to carry the comparison farther; and it cannot fairly be done, for the departments of the two universities...
President Eliot very aptly remarked that we cannot claim to have an American educational system so long as some of the eccentricities which characterize it remain; the lack of any fixed standard of admission to the professional schools, for instance; and the existence of scientific schools claiming to do parallel work to the college but having a much lower standard of admission. These conditions which make it possible for the American student to leave long gaps in his education are eccentricities which no well balanced system of education would admit. The thought that this suggests is certainly novel and almost...