Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee has been appointed by Columbia college to consider the formation of a league next year between Cornell, Columbia, Lehigh, Lafayette, and Rutgers colleges...
According to this year's Index the principal cities of the United States are represented at Harvard by the following number of students: New York 115, Chicago 58, Philadelphia 20, Brooklyn 16, St. Louis...
...science of Metallurgy have led the department to provide such a course. Furnaces for the essay of the simplest ores of gold and silver will be set up in the basement of the new addition to the museum, and will be ready for use at the beginning of next year...
...urgency. Ultimately, however, even the present accommodations will grow too small, and then a new building will be in order. Boylston Hall is certainly fast becoming out of date and inadequate. Already some inconvenience is felt in the laboratory accommodations and this is bound to increase with every new year. A new and finer laboratory is only a question of time. Now that Harvard has become in reality a university, her needs press upon her harder than ever, but these very needs are pleasing evidences of her substantial material growth...
...taught in the colleges and high schools and academies in the best manner we can. In Germany the teacher shows how the subject should be taught. In regard to the preparation of the teacher, he thought Harvard had done her fair share of the work during the last thirty years. The methods of teaching the principal subjects have fundamentally changed at Harvard within twenty years, and I suppose it is the case in other colleges. If, therefore, we are right in our present methods, what good would it do to teach the old methods? Take, for instance, the study...