Word: core
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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Just one week from today there will be a conference of college presidents in Brooklyn under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. of that city. President Low of Columbia will preside, and it is expected that a core of colleges will be represented. Unfortunately President Eliot will not be present, he has a previous similar engagement in Boston on that day. Harvard will therefore be represented by Prof. Shaler. The object of the meeting is the discussion of the subject "Education and the colleges" and each speaker is expected to defile the attitude of the institution which...
...their own departments. How this end will be accomplished, the fuller announcement soon to be published will show better than can yet be done. As a rule, in each of the topics above mentioned, a course of lectures, by instructors belonging to the department in question will form the core of the instruction. In addition there will be, in general, practical exercises and conferences. Candidates will also be required to attend certain of the elementary courses now on the general list, in order that they may see how instruction is actually given by our own teachers. A course of twelve...