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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board of Trustees at Cornell University have decided to erect a new chemical laboratory and have appropriated $80,000 from the permanent funds of the university for this purpose. The great increase in the number of student during the past few years has made the new building a necessity. This laboratory, will be begun at once and will be the fourth building which is in progress on the Cornell campus. The trustees on the Cornell campus. The trustees have also appropriated $40,000 to complete the engineering building. They have decided to name the physical laboratory Lincoln Hall...
...following article is taken from the New York Mail and Express. The recent resignation of a body of the students' conference committee at Princeton and the vacillation and weakness of the college senate at Amherst must indicate to the authorities the difficulties and embarassments which attend the policy of allowing the undergraduate to participate in his own government. The tendency for the last five years has been toward some form of co-operation in college government and discipline between faculty and student. The system was several years ago adopted at Amherst, and in Williams, Princeton, Harvard, Vermont and some other...
...paper by Mr. John Trowbridge on "Economy in College Work" should interest every student of Harvard University, for we are to a great extent the subject of his criticisms. Mr. Trowbridge condemns severely the custom among us of selecting four college courses wich call for entirely different states of mind. Earnest work, in his opinion, can not be accomplished unless a man can give his whole thought to one subject for a certain time, at least three months. He advises selection of courses, which demands like states of mind, philosophy and political economy for example. The writer plainly shows...
...Every student is required to follow implicitly the directions with regard to paper, folding, endorsing, etc., given on the English Composition card...
...Cornell Era says: "It is very noticeable how much the student publications of Yale and Harvard surpass those of all other colleges in literary qualities...