Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...departments under the Faculty,- the College and the Scientific School. The Graduate School, however, has had a development in administration which has been its own and to which its present important position in the University is largely due. Under that administration the large resources of the University have been put to more extensive and systematic use in the interests of advanced study and research, and the cause of higher education throughout the country has been steadily advanced...
...radical change has lately been brought about in the Medical School curriculum, the course having been lengthened from three to four years, as has already been done at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and other like institutions. The change will be put into operation beginning with September, 1896. The subject of making uniform entrance examinations for the Eastern colleges, is an important one and its revival has aroused much interest. A further possible development of the plan would give an entrance certificate admitting power at any one of the leading colleges, could satisfactory uniformity of examinations and marking...
...suggest an objection to the analogy drawn between that and the plans as roughly outlined for the Harvard club. But this much at least seems to be shown by the experience of the Houston Club, that if, whether by one scheme of administration or another, the privileges are put within the reach of all members of the University, very general, if not universal use will be made of them. Just what scheme would prove most likely, under the peculier conditions which may exist at Harvard, to put the privileges within the reach of the greatest number, is an important question...
...final organization of the freshman musical clubs should mark the beginning of an active season's work. These clubs are thoroughly worth the time and interest put into them, and the acquaintances which they form and which are continued by many afterwards in the University musical clubs are often among the pleasantest in College life. The University clubs need to be recruited each year by men who have started in on their class musical clubs and much of the success of each class when its time comes to manage the University clubs depends on the interest taken and the success...
...speaker referred to the great menace offered to college athletics by the desire to win at any cost. In this way the semi-professionalism now existing at some colleges is introduced. It rests largely with the alumni to check this dangerous tendency. They should use all their influence to put athletics where they belong-on the basis of true sport...