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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...style show absolutely no trace of medical practice. The cures were simple miracles. The whole matter is very well illustrated by the present annual pilgrimages of sick people to the island of Tenos, to be healed at the shrine of the Madonna. A plan of Epidauros and a number of bas-reliefs were shown to the audience by means of the stereopticon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. TARBELL'S LECTURE. | 12/12/1889 | See Source »

According to this year's Index the principal cities of the United States are represented at Harvard by the following number of students: New York 115, Chicago 58, Philadelphia 20, Brooklyn 16, St. Louis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/12/1889 | See Source »

...current number of the Week's Sport contains a synopsis of the football season with a critical review of players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 12/12/1889 | See Source »

...recent meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, the subject of the teaching of pedagogues in colleges was discussed. After a number of prominent educators had expressed their views, all declaring that pedagogy could and should be taught in colleges, President Eliot spoke as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT ELIOT ON PEDAGOGY. | 12/12/1889 | See Source »

Professor Shaler's article in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly is indeed interesting. He makes some striking remarks on the difference between the strain caused by mental and physical exercise, showing by the use of statistics how very great is the mental strain under which the teacher or literary man labors. The agriculturist, the artisan and the professional man in general who is not engaged in teaching the youth, are accustomed to continuous toil for at least ten hours daily six days in the week. With the instructor it is quite different; about one third of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VACATION SCHOOLS. | 12/12/1889 | See Source »

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