Word: following
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...light for even a two mile pull. They lack the regularity of their university eight, but will have a week longer in which to prepare themselves The Yale crew are expected at their quarters on Wednesday, in time to see the Columbia-Harvard race, which they expect to follow in their own launch. In this way they will be able to form some idea of the style of rowing which their rivals pursue. Capt. "Bob Cook" will be with them as coach most of the time while they remain at the river. They are still imperfect in their new stroke...
This system has been at work for five or six years, and is said to have produced most satisfactory results. It is greatly to be regretted that the other great American universities have been unable to follow this unique example set by the University of Michitgan, for the most prominent authorities on educational matters in this country are of opinion that it is only a national preparatory school system, intimately connected with the prominent universities, such as is exemplified in the German gymnasia, that will bring American univeristies to that unequalled state of excellence to which German universities have attained...
...former at places of instruction like the Institute of Technology with its School of Mechanic Arts. There better facilities are offered for a technical education than could ever be found at a college or university. The country has need both of technical schools and of colleges. It does not follow, however, that the two must be consolidate. Each meets a separate want. To conbine them both would be to weaken each. There is no more reason why a practical education, in the sense of a mechanical education, should form a part of a university training than that military or naval...
...question is, "Where shall I go now?" So thinks the student who has completed his four years of college life. Many men are obliged to go into business, others seek experience in travel, but there are a few who find themselves able to follow out some line of study in which they are interested. It is for such men that the following brief description of the great French schools is intended. The German universities are a favorite resort for the ambitions, but there is a kind of training that they do not give, and that want is supplied...
...aside as waste. The plea that this election will make a man's course complex and that he will get a broken knowledge of many subjects is some what strained. True, a little training in any subject is a dangerous thing, but when the modern languages and English studies follow after a solid foundation of the very learning on which the above studies are built, then putting mathematics aside, a man is well fitted for almost any sphere in life, be it law, medicine, science, or even a practical business career. The study of the classics provided...