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...states that many of the alumni know little or nothing of some of the candidates, or of their views on matters affecting the university, and desiring to exercise their franchise for the best interests of the university, they ask for information in regard to certain important questions. Of the fifteen candidates for the full six-year term, all but three sent replies; of the three candidates for the five-year term vacancy all but one replied; of the three candidates for the one-year term vacancy, all but one sent an answer, and of the three outgoing overseers only...
...youth's first experience at Harvard under the present system, makes him feel as though, in some unaccountable way, he has grown fifteen or twenty years older during the few months elapsed since his high school commencement day. Under the despotic sway of the high school pedagogue he was a boy; he has suddenly become a man; distinguished professors defer to him, treat him almost as their equal, he finds that his education depends mainly on the soundness of his own judgment. Harvard theory assumes that a youth of eighteen or nineteen is not the thoughtless, irrational creature...
...offers a course of three year's study, consisting of fifteen hours a week the first year, ten hours the second year, and twelve the third. Its courses in a general way cover those given here in history, political economy and Roman law, besides some of the more general law school courses. In addition, instruction is offered in physical and political geography, ethnography, philosophy; history of political theories from Plato to Hegel, bibliography of the political sciences, political history of the state of New York, modern Roman law, comparative constitutional law of the several commonwealths of the American Union, Latin...
...Dartmouth college library is growing at the rate of fifteen hundred volumes a year...
...increase in the teaching staff of Yale College. In 1873 there was 80, now there are 114 instructors - an increase of 42 1-2 per cent. At Harvard they have increased from 100 to 184, which nearly doubles Yale's percentage. Yale claims to have erected in fifteen years buildings costing $700,000. Harvard, between 1869 and 1881, used $2,307,305 for the same purpose. It is customary for Yale apologists to put forward many excuses for the college, which allege lack, not only of funds, but of any spirit among alumni that comes, forward to ease the pecuniary...