Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Childs' English and Scotch Ballads are to be brought out in an edition de luxe of 1,000 copies. The work will be issued in eight parts...
...outgrowth of Owens College and was originally endowed, like the Johns Hopkins, by a private founder, afterwards by subscriptions. It has become known chiefly by its work in natural science but desires to encourage humanistic studies equally. We anticipate a great future for it. None of the English or Scotch universities are denominational; none have now (since 1871) religious tests, except that the established church in both England and Scotland has possession of the theological faculties. English universities are self-governed, except London and Manchester, which are controlled respectively by a senate (named by the Crown) and by a board...
...matter of teaching, the Scotch universities are much like American colleges. The methods are catechetical; teaching is regarded as more important than examinations; prizes are in vogue and exercise great influence. In Scotland, prizes are usually awarded by vote of the students. Practically the system works better than would awards by the professors. Prizes generally go where they belong. The Scotch universities are cheap, because the fees are low and the students live where they please. Their conspicuous and distinctive merit lies in the great stimulative power of their teaching. In England there is, with less of this stimulus, perhaps...
...land revenues of the colleges have suffered from the competition of Western America, and money is wanting to carry out some of the most desirable improvements. Broadly considered, the advantages of English university education may be said to consist in the combination of college and university life. The Scotch universities afford efficient class teaching; the German universities give the fullest instruction by professional lectures; the English universities excel in social advantages and in opportunities for forming valuable friendships. The excessive development of their examination system has certainly injured their teaching; but it has been improving in compass as well...
Prof. F. J. Child is preparing a handsome edition of English and Scotch ballads, to be issued in eight parts, of two hundred and fifty pages each. This is a task which is said to have never been performed in this country. Prof. Child's name is a surety that the work will be done ably...