Word: european
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...raised a considerable sum of money. No system of historical instruction is more efficient than that which combines voluntary reading with required work and with suggestive lectures. The best elements of the old and new methods of historical training have been happily united at Yale. The general plan of European history specializing as it does upon modern Europe and the Constitutional history of England, impresses a student of methods in teaching as one of the most sensible, solid, and practically useful now in operation...
...last adopted our suggestions of last year on this subject. We hope this lecture may be the first of a series. A lecture on the present political condition of Germany or England would be very acceptable to the college, especially in view of the present strained relations between the European powers...
...will be strongly impressed with the remarkable advance made during the past decade. In the number, variety, extent and attractiveness of the historical work now offered at Harvard University that institution rivals a German university. The American student no longer absolutely needs to go abroad for thorough instruction in European and American History. He can find it in Cambridge, Mass. All the methods which characterize the most advanced historical work and all the facilities for special research in libraries that a student could reasonably demand are in existence there...
...George Makepeace Towle has begun a series of eight lectures on "European Government" before the students of Tufts College...
...tower in the centre in which a clock is to be placed. The work is under the personal supervision of the founder, who devotes his entire time and attention to the welfare of the college. It is his intention to found this college after the method of the old European universities, although it will be modeled on the plan of no particular one. There will be a board of corporators, consisting of nine persons, who will have control of the funds, choice of instructors, etc. They will assist the founder in carrying out the plans already conceived...