Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject of establishing a Duetscher Verein at Yale among the professors and undergraduate is being agitated...
...Ross, of Cambridge, has very recently presented the Harvard library with an exceedingly valuable collection of works on the early history of institutions. This gift numbering about three hundred volumes, can be considered as a supplement to a more valuable and a larger collection of works on the same subject, given to the library by Dr. Ross about one year ago. The former incomplete collection is now rendered almost perfect, and the library now possesses more works on this subject than any other library in the country. The books treat principally of the history and of the early political, civic...
...work as his blue book gives him nor even a list of the questions he has been called upon to answer. To remedy this difficulty, I wish to suggest that, where it is not already so, a third party-another professor, or some one with a knowledge of the subject-should be present at examinations of this kind. I know that this system is practiced in some other colleges...
...hard work and strong lists, and the other was that the French teachers are more numerous, more enthusiastic and better educated than our own. Matthew Arnold also wrote on the superiority of German and French education at the time when he was making an extensive study of this subject. The question at present is how to improve the schools so that the young men may go out better equipped and the whole teaching force be better trained in the future. The means of doing this is simply the spending of more money. There is a strong feeling that while primary...
...political and legal career of Sir Francis Bacon, with special reference to his relations with Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Buckingham and Burleigh. In the course of his remarks he read largely from Spedding; the different biographies of Bacon as a politician and judicial official were also carefully compared. The subject proved a fruitful one for investigation, and the club did not adjourn until a late hour...