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...Institute of Technology intends to establish a summer school among the mines of Pennsylvania...
...Monday last the trustees of Columbia College voted to establish a new department in the collegiate course for women, whereby they may obtain, after a post-graduate course, the degrees of Master of Arts, (A. M.), and Doctor of Arts, (D. A.), and may also pursue a higher course of study for the degrees of Doctor of Letters, (L. H. D.), and Doctor of Philosophy, (Ph. D.), the time in which they are to be awarded these degrees to be not less than two years after graduation. The faculty of the School of Arts was authorized to prepare the scheme...
...Institute of Technology will establish during the coming summer a school either in the coal regions of Pennsylvania or in the iron regions of Michigan, in order to give the students of the mining department practice in the work of the mines...
...Schultz, of Washington, has just been placed in charge of Cornell's experiment station. A few months ago an appropriation was made to establish four experimental station, but not till recently was the placing determined. They are distributed as follows: One at Washington; the second at the Rose Polytechnic School, Terre Haute, Ind.; a third at the Massachu-chusetts Institute of Technology, and the fourth at Cornell. Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, of the Rose Polytechnic, will direct the work of these stations for a year. Their work will be to establish laws governing atmospheric electricity, and comparing these laws with...
...better institutions of learning. The first incumbent of the McLean Professorship of ancient and modern history, was Jared Sparks, A. M., who was at that time engaged upon the pioneer work in the field of American history. Although Cornell was the first institution in America to establish a special chair for this branch of historical instruction, the most important to Americans, Harvard was the first to bring American history into decided prominence by the encouragement of original lectures upon this subject by Professor Sparks...