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An eager throng is surging to and for in front of a long, low window; men are crowding and elbowing each other; old hags are pointing toward the glass, and croaking to one another; pretty women are gazing with white faces of pity, but with none the less thirsty greediness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

Nothing, perhaps, could point more conclusively to the fact that America is pre-eminently the land of innovation and experiment than the constant recurrence of changes in its educational systems. We Americans are striving to attain the standard of perfection, and, -though that standard be a lofty one, and though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/19/1885 | See Source »

The plan can be modified, perhaps, to good effect, but the main features of it are such as to give a representative and experienced delegation, easy to elect, and admirably fitted to serve as a medium between students and faculty.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Conference Committee. | 2/18/1885 | See Source »

The German universities have no system of fellowships. This seems at first strange, but a reason for the absence of this system, which has proved so beneficial in England, may be found in the excellence of the universities themselves. It is thought, perhaps, that there is little need for a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Fellowships. | 2/17/1885 | See Source »

There seems to be a general and growing sentiment among the students that the German department is by no means what it ought to be. President Eliot is known everywhere as a strenuous advocate of the modern theory of education which recognizes the fact that the usefulness of a knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/17/1885 | See Source »