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...better methods in lower schools: Prof. D. Collin Wells in Andover Rev Jan. 1892. - (a). Exeter can demand of applicants of over sixteen years of age, only "some knowledge of arithmetic, writing, spelling and grammar:" Minority Rep. p. 19. - (b). Our primary schools are not sufficiently organized, vide chart in addresses and proceeding of New E. Ass. of Colleges and Prep. Schools, Oct. 16, 1891. - (c). French and German youth pass Americans at the primary and grammar school stage: Ibid...
...Hill had prepared a chart by which he showed that in France a man could complete a university education at the age of 21, in Germany at 22, and in the United States at 26. By "university education" meant a training in one of the professional school. In Europe the step from the secondary or preparatory schools into the universities is direct, while in the United States there is an intermediate step in the colleges. In this country there are two roads leading from high schools to professional schools, either through or around the college. Very few of the present...
...Aper has given a photographic telescope 8 inches per hour for use in Cambridge, where 2.157 photographs have been taken making a chart of the sky from the north pole to 20 degrees south of the equator. Spectrit of stars as faint as the tenth magnitude have been obtained and umerous is important results obtained. The most interesting result has been the discovery by Miss Maury of a second star, Beta Aurigael, which is shown by the doubling of the lines in its spectrum at regular intervals to be a close binary, revolving once in about four days. The study...
...Sargent, in connection with his system of measurement, is getting out a circular giving the chart of the winners in his recent contest. Dr. Sargent has finished measuring the men who have signed thus far, and here after the measurements will be taken but once a week...
...Hitchcock, director of the department of physical culture at Cornell, is preparing an illustrated work on in-door athletics. It will contain illustrations for which students will pose, of over a hundred positions in wrestling, boxing and fencing. He is also compiling a chart showing the physical proportions of young men. Statistics of measurements will be drawn from Yale, Amherst, Oberlin, Cornell and various colleges throughout the country...