Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject, said Dr. Walcott, is so large that many deficiencies in treatment are inevitable. In the first place, how can we tell what the health of a given body of men may be? Only, strangely enough, by the death rate. Fifty years ago in England, competent officers were appointed in every parish to collect its vital statistics, and now the government publishes yearly a volume of about nine hundred pages, so accurately compiled that all inferences about the health of the modern world are based upon it. In Massachusetts the same system has been adopted and an excellent yearly report...
...letter in the Nation on the teaching of pedagogy in our colleges, part of which we reprint in another column, deserves attention, as it deals with a subject of great and growing importance. Teaching as a profession is claiming a much broader field than ever before, and in the same proportion the need of a preparatory training is becoming more evident. Our high schools and academies are suffering much because many of their teachers, though college graduates, are utterly inexperienced, and must spend the first year or more in learning methods. This year of training may be a valuable...
...company in Tiffin, Ohio, has sent circulars to the students of Cornell University, offering to furnish them with essays and orations on any subject at prices varying from three to twenty-five dollars...
...wage earners. The prizes will be $300 and $200. The essays must not exceed 25,000 words each and must be in the hands of the association previous to November 1, 1890. Any person is eligible to the competition. This series of prizes will probably be permanent. The next subject will be taxation with a still larger premium. The first competition was on the subject of immigration to the United States, and the prize was won by Richard Lang of Baltimore. Progessor Dly is holding the $100 contributed by Mrs. Amelia Rives Chanler for the best essay on the subject...
...then, of the dual league, while it of course arose, it could not in justice determine Harvard's action. And yet our correspondent is wrong in stating that the dual league is purely a Harvard scheme. The CRIMSON has had occasion to consult some prominent Yale men upon the subject, and while they have indeed spoken guardedly, they have yet assured us that the sentiment of Yale was in favor of the scheme. The exceptional good fellowship displayed at the Spring field game also, may justly be regarded as an index of Yale's sentiment; and more than all perhaps...