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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President McCosh is endeavoring to elevate Princeton to the scale of a university. The excellent opportunities which are now afforded students of that college to pursue post-graduate courses, especially in philosophy, speak well for the undertaking. The progress which has been made in systems of study almost necessitate university methods. Any college, however prosperous, which neglects the tendencies to an enlarged scope of work and persists in purely college work, cannot reasonably hope for distinguished success or marked progress. The more collegiate study is elevated in its facilities and methods the broader will be the scholarship evolved. A university...
...President's annual report of Johns Hopkins University has appeared, and is devoted to a short summary of the year's progress. The University is beginning to get settled in its present courses and methods, so that less and less change from year to year will be necessary. It has ended the conflict between prescribed and elective courses in the collegiate department by the substitution of the "group system," which has been adopted at Bryn Mawr College. Almost every young man will find that one of these seven avenues to a Bachelor's degree will prevent him from wasting time...
...athletics. We are glad to see from the Yale Courant, that the secrecy long in use at Yale is in a fair way to become abolished. It was impossible a year ago for any one of the plebs, as we might say, to obtain information about the progress of the teams, - "not even enough to base a sensible bet on," says the Courant moodily. If the bets alluded to were those made by Yale men last spring, we must allow that the Courant is quite correct, - and adversity probably will bring circumspection with it. However, the fact remains that Yale...
...chess game lately in progress with Yale, Harvard has been forced to resign...
...Sibley was librarian of the Harvard Library from 1856 to 1877. During this period of twenty-one years, the progress that seemed to characterize all that related to the Library was very great, and it may be truly said that this great progress was largely due to Mr. Sibley's devotion to the interests of the institution. Harvard certainly has every reason to be thankful to one who has helped her in attaining to what now is her proud boast, "the largest and best college library in the country...