Word: session
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...superintendent of the census is attempting to prepare a compendium of the census of 1880, to present to Congress during the coming session...
...represented by Professor Shipman. There were also in attendance Professors Newton of Yale, Palmer of Harvard, Westgate of Wesleyan, Williams of Brown and Rice of Williams. The leading topic brought up in this meeting was "Philosophy;" next fall the subject will be "Modern History." The chief interest in the session centred on the treatise prepared and delivered by the aged and honored philosopher, Mark Hopkins, of Williams, entitled, "The Best Method of Teaching Philosophy...
...YORK, Oct. 16, 1882. The session at Columbia has opened with somewhat of the old time life. The coming of a freshman class numbering between one hundred and one hundred and ten men adds much to the wonted activity of our affairs collegiate. '85 having put on sophomoric dignity begins to show some qualities not characteristic of funerals which were conspicuous by their absence last year. The present freshmen are for the most part large, well built men, and while the average age is about eighteen there are quite a number of them who long since passed their teens...
...term the professor prepares a list of subjects, theoretical, practical and historical, from which each of the members of the Seminar chooses two or more which he agrees to present during the term. A programme is made out, and one or two of these essays assigned to each session. The subjects being known beforehand, each member of the society is expected to prepare himself for the discussion which follows the reading. Such subjects as the following are assigned: Value, Banks of Issue, Double Standard, Income Tax, State Ownership of Railways, etc. The student is expected to know, for instance...
...National Farmers' Congress, now in session at St. Louis, has declared the present tariff unjust, and a burden to agricultural interests...