Word: reviewers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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SIRS: The publication in your columns of a review of the President's report, and the statement therein that a gift of $25,000 was made last year for the building of five courts for the nine, naturally raises the question why has this improvement not been made? No doubt sufficient cause for the delay exists, yet it would contribute to the satisfaction of the friends of baseball to know what this cause is. May we not hope through your columns for an explanation...
FINE ARTS III.- Review this afternoon at 3 p. m. in 6 Little...
...American educators must next solve. The discussion originated in a protest against the system of competitive examinations which appeared in the Nineteenth Century. This protest was signed by some of the most distinguished educators of the English universities and schools; all of the signatures covered fourteen pages of the review. The protest asserts that the examination has lost its true function as the servant of education; that under the competitive system the ideal conception of scholarship has so degenerated that the examination is of more importance by the student than education...
...London Quarterly Review says in a recent number: "All the professors of universities in America save one, Pennsylvania, teach free trade; but the people are protectionists in spite of their doctrinaires." The New York Mail and Express says, in comment, that although Pennsylvania is not the only protectionist college (for the University of Minnesota also teaches protection) yet it must be admitted that the economic teaching in most of our colleges is a reflection of English thought and methods. This is shown by the fact that the text books used are those of Adam Smith and Malthus, Mill and Jevons...
...REVIEW GERMAN A.- I shall read the books read in this course and explain difficulties, in my room, Tuesday evening...