Word: well
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...providing an arrangement whereby students registered in the Graduate School and studying in the Medical School may proceed to the degrees of Ph. D. and S. D." Dean Peirce suggests that the same principle might be applied in suitable cases to the departments of Law and Theology as well as of Medicine. President Eliot is evidently influenced by an idea not altogether dissimilar when he deduces from the success of the Divinity School as an undenominational institution, the fact "that a theological department, conducted on scientific principles, may be a consistent and altogether desirable branch of a free university...
...choir sang the following selections: "The Haven," J. Beam; "Oh for a closer walk with God," Myles Foster; and "O Lord My God," Klein. The solo in the second selection was well rendered by E. M. Waterhouse...
...report touches many other matters of interest and importance, one of them being the encouragement of "migration" in graduate study. On the whole it is an important document and well worth careful reading in its bearings on matters of general, educational, as well as of local, University interests...
...subjects now dealt with by colleges, should be made from the most elementary and most attractive courses named above. The indication is that English, French, German, History, and Natural Science are the copies which might be most judiciously added to the Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, which are already well developed in the best schools. Much of the elementary instruction which is now given in college in the five subjects named ought to be given in high schools and academies...
...upper ones will each contain 60,000 books. The stacks are arranged compactly, leaving, however, sufficient space between them for a comfortable passage-way. In the broad aisles near the windows, tables will be placed for the use of readers admitted to the stacks. The upper floor is especially well lighted by windows, but on the two lower floors electric lights will have to be used a greater part of the time. The books now stored in the art room will be removed to the second floor, and the art room will be fitted up for a reading-room...