Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...President John Bascom, of the U. of Wisconsin, who has returned to his old home in Williamstown to engage in literary work, has been added to the Williams faculty as lecturer on sociology, and will deliver a course of lectures on that subject to the senior class...
...look into the book in the first place; in the second place he should have learnt by this time that mere politeness required gentlemen to control their merriment-when loss of control is out of place and ungentlemanly. I have heard so many complaints on this subject that, a sufferer myself, I thought I would call your attention...
...graduate has showed a continual tendency to advance, and few now leave the college before they are twenty-three years old. To counteract this tendency, which, although theoretically advantageous, is practically very inconvenient. Time must be saved wherever possible, since the faculties who are most conversant in the subject recommend the shortening of the period of study. We hope to see the necessary action soon taken, so that those who are now in college may reap the benefits, especially since by proper conditions this privilege can be protected from abuse...
...faculty concurred-had for its object the shortening of the college course by one year for students who should pursue their professional studies to the full limit in the Harvard schools. This proposal was discussed at the December meeting of the council in 1886, and the whole subject is still under advisement...
...Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School expresses a preference for the plan of concentrating the resources and work of the school on the one subject of engineering...