Word: thwing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...county bonds are represented by a few thousand dollars; and that railroads in the south represent the larger part of the balance. A college of a different environment and condition is Rochester University, New York. Of its $1,200,000, $335,000 are railroad bonds. [President Charles F. Thwing in June Forum...
Professor Charles E. Thwing has an article in the current number of the Forum on the cost of collegiate education. He shows the increase of expenses at Harvard. From 1825-30 the average annual expenses were $176.00, of which half went for tuition and half for board and room; from 1831-40 the average was $188.10; from 1840-48, $194.00; 1849-60, $227~($138.00 went for board and room); in the sixties it jumped from $263.00 to $437.00, two-thirds of which went for board and room; in 1881-82 the average expense to an economical student ranged from...
President Thwing of Adelbert College has very carefully gone through "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography" keeping an exact record of the men who have graduated from college, and those who have...
...contents are on subjects as varied as could well be imagined. The opening article is a study of "Education in the Preparatory Schools," written by Charles Francis Adams, '56 and William W. Goodwin, '51. It is surprising to a westerner to hear of President Charles F. Thwing's writing of "Harvard and Yale in the West" but he treats the whole subject and really deals with the west; not with Ohio alone as might have been supposed...
...present from the active centres of the work in the United States, including the leading colleges and Universities: President Andrews, of Brown; Prof. Albert S. Cook, of Yale, president of the Connecticut branch of the American society; Mr. Melvin Dewey, director of the New York University Extension; President Thwing, of Western Reserve; President Coulter, of Indiana; President Adams, of Wisconsin; President Harper, of Chicago; and Provost Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania, are among the most prominent representatives who will be present...