Word: seventeen
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...from the professional schools. But could not this be accomplished in other ways? The true fault lies, not in our academic department, but in the preparatory and lower schools. There is no reason why the American schools, should not, like the European schools, educate their pupils in sixteen or seventeen years instead of nineteen. It seems quite possible that Harvard might gain a year at least by exerting her influence upon the larger preparatory schools, some of which already offer a shorter course than the regular, and which could in their turn influence the lower schools. Another year ought...
Work is being pushed on the new cage at Princeton which was begun last December. The original plan was to build a wooden structure and for that plan some seventeen hundred dollars was raised among the undergraduates. Later on the plan was changed, and it was thought best, instead of a wooden building to put up a substantial one of brick. This brick building is necessarily more expensive, so that before any contract for a roof can be entered into more money must be had from the college, in fact it will be necessary to raise an additional...
...Sawin, A. B., A. M., instructor in mathematics of the college and of the Annex, who died from the effects of a surgical operation at the Massachusetts General Hospital last Sunday morning. Mr. Sawin was born at Natick, Mass., October 12, 1860, and entered Exeter at the age of seventeen, where he supported himself largely by his own effort. Graduating from Exeter with the highest honors he entered Harvard in the class of 1884. At graduation he received a degree summa cum laude, was given an A. M. shortly after, and following this was appointed instructor in mathematics, which position...