Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discussion over the proposed change of location of Columbia is extremely interestingto Harvard men. Columbia College, or the School of Arts, as it is termed, is being choked by the great city which surrounds it, while the metropolitan environment appears to be the principal reason for the strength of the professional schools of the university. The question is then whether the college shall be abolished and the entire energy of the institution devoted to the university organization proper or an attempt be made to reorganize after the plan of Harvard...
...Thomas Fiske, writing in the Columbia Spectator, says: "Two distinct types of the University may be noted - the metropolitan and the rural. Both exist in this country. Both exist abroad. Highly developed examples of the former may be seen at Berlin and Paris, and of the latter at Cambridge and Oxford. Generally speaking, the latter is characterized by a close relationship to the life of the student. It is said to stand in loco parentis. The university of the other type assumes no responsibility for the detail of the student's life. In both types, however, it is equally essential...
...meeting of the Board of Managers of the Metropolitan Association of A. A. U. on Monday, it was decided that all athletes competing in the Seventh Regiment games next Saturday evening in New York shall be debarred from entering any athletic contest under the A. A. U. rules. The reason given is that the prizes offered by the Seventh Regiment A. A., are articles of jewelry which is against the rules of the Union...
Dohm, Remington, Downes and Vredenburg will run in the quarter mile race at the indoor championship games of the Metropolitan division...
...position of Art Director at the World's Fair has been offered to Henry G. Marquand, Esq., the president of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York...