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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dartmouth has received a four thousand dollar scholarship, on condition that no student who uses tobacco shall receive any benefit from...
...more important point to make clear to your readers is that no matter what the special rules of each college may be, every student must pass three examinations by the university examiners, before obtaining the ordinary B. A. degree; and the first of these viz. "Responsions" has to be passed within the first two terms of residence, and is practically an entrance examination of a very respectable character, to which all students are subject...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - One would suppose that the list of electives at Harvard embraced all courses given at Yale and other prominent colleges, but such is not the case. While the student of political science at Harvard may have a larger number of courses in History and Political Economy from which he can make his selection, there is one branch of the subject which is ignored here, but which at Yale, at Columbia, at University of Pennsylvania, and at University of Michigan receives considerable attention. This subject is termed, "Municipal Law" at Yale, and "Mercantile Law" at University of Pennsylvania...
Under the rather long heading "Compulsory Attendance of College Students at Chapel Services," the Journal of Education has an article that at the present time is particularly applicable to Harvard. The writer excellently draws the distinction between a college and a university, showing how much more election in the study belongs to the latter than the former. The college in its aim is "general rather that special, being to develop, as lies in its power, the youth into a man, not into a teacher, lawyer, or other professional or business specialist." The university, on the other hand, is for special...
University life fosters individual peculiarities. Any large centre of learning will gather about it both the learned and the unlearned, the ordinary and the peculiar. And almost every type of goodness, evil, and indifference will characterize the student life. Every university or college possesses proofs of this. But Harvard is, perhaps, at present unique in one particular, boasts a higher perfection in one field, enjoys deeper draughts of one pleasure than any other college in an American's knowledge. This is the work of Harvard poets. The work of our poets is the model of the western college poetasters...