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He is represented as stating that "there are twelve great public schools intimately connected with the universities, one to one, another to another. The student passes from the school to the university without an examination. He is retained at the school six years. Add two years to our preparatory schools...
The American college is a cross between the English public school and university. At Oxford and Cambridge there are registered between 3,000 and 4,000 students. These are sub-divided as to their residence and instruction into colleges distinct from the university. The university holds examinations and gives degrees...
The idea that a fence would be undemocratic as preventing some men from seeing the game who can not afford the price of admission, is laughable. We suppose the faculty consider it a much more democratic spirit which will prompt a man to look over a fence at a game...
Two prizes of one hundred dollars each are offered at Cornell for the best essays on "The Democratic Character of Civil Service Reform" and "The Lessons of the French Revolution to the United States."
Some of the colleges affect to disregard student opinion. The ultra conservatism of the old-time pedagogue cannot easily brook the democratic tendencies of undergraduate thought in the modern American college. But the more liberal of the colleges, and Harvard, no doubt, among them, have come to recognize that undergraduate...