Word: presidentes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Those who at present are busy over the Constitution of the United States will find it greatly to their advantage to consult the former of these essays, for many interesting questions are there started. "Is it the violation of any law laid down in the Constitution, is it an element...
IN the review of President Eliot's Report in our last issue, we gave an extract showing his opinion of the present system of compulsory attendance on recitations. We give below an abstract of an article written by Dr. McCosh of Princeton College, maintaining the opposite view.
In contradiction to President Eliot's statement that the system "is characteristic of American Colleges as distinguished from European Universities," Dr. McCosh says :-
Without any questions from me he began telling story after story, holding me spell-bound, as the Ancient Mariner held the wedding-guest "with his glittering eye." In fact, this eye is all I can distinctly remember about him, for his body seemed ghost-like and unreal enough. It was...
PRESIDENT ELIOT, in a few pregnant sentences, has suggested the change, and Dr. McCosh has made haste to declare himself firmly opposed to it. At this point it may not be unpardonable presumption for a student, a party chiefly interested, to express his opinions upon the matter.