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...steps of Billy, the postman, receded from the door, the worthy senior rose, picked up the bill, returned to his seat, relighted his pipe, opened the envelope, and then soliloquized as follows, while he read down the list of items: "Humph, here we have 'em again. Another Xmas card from the Bursar, Well, let's see how the score stands on this round. Well, first thing instruction, $50; now that's good. I've been to about 'steed recitations this year, and at half of them I've flunked, while at the other half I've spent my hour...
...from University College the ethereal Shelly was expelled. John Wickliff was a fellow of Merton College in 1364, and Frederic W. Robertson and the saintly Helm, the author of the hymn, "From Greenlands lacy Mountains," were students of Brasenose College. And so on I might go, but the list of great names is almost endless. Every building is historic, and every walk has traditions of those whose names the world will...
...system of taking attendance in the larger courses in college is certainly a great improvement on the old system of calling the roll and having "spotters." With a hundred names or more on the list, the calling of the roll is a long and tiresome ordeal for both instructor and student. But the new system, that of having the men sign their names on slips of paper at each recitation, is certainly a relief to the instructors and, we may well suppose, not at all disagreeable to the monitors...
...political economy cover to a considerable extent, the ground covered in direct instruction at the institutions we have named, yet this fact of the absence of regularly organized seminar work and of a school or department for specialized work in these branches, technically would exclude her from our list, as they exclude Yale and other colleges. The school of political science at Columbia aims (a) to fit young men for all the political branches of the public course; (b) to give an adequate economic and legal training to those who intend to make journalism their profession; and (c) to supplement...
...Michigan University. Students may be admitted to the Bachelor's degree within a year and a half, or to the Master's within two years and a half after entering the school. The degree of Ph. D. may be given two years after the Bachelor's degree. A list of 32 courses is given under the heads of History, Economic Science, Political Ethics, Constitutional, Administrative and International Law and Social and Sanitary Sciences; from this the student can select his course. The seminary method is largely used in many of the courses, and in addition there is a Political Science...