Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...like the school-boys of the present...
...have recently had occasion to listen to various discussions on this peculiar kind of evidence. We are sorry to say there prevails at present a custom, which is sanctioned by nothing except its age, of regarding the statement of a student as false, while of a graduate, no matter if only of six months' standing, the direct contrary is assumed. In other words, if a student be requested to make a clear statement of his case, and if it be substantiated by two or three others, it is all considered as negative testimony, and is entirely overturned...
FROM the Treasurer's Statement we learn that the Kirkland Fellowship at present amounts to about $6,300. It will be remembered that this Fellowship is being established by George Bancroft, who will pay $2,000 a year till the sum of $10,000 is reached, when the income will be devoted to the higher education of some student taken at the discretion of the Corporation from any department of the University. The student thus selected will be allowed to pursue his studies either in this country or in Europe...
...this year, as of the last two, is the record of the attempts made to raise the standard in the different departments of the University. The requirements for admission and graduation have been made stricter, and the number of teachers has been largely increased. In the College alone, "the present number of teachers of all grades is more than double the number employed in 1866-67; and every teacher gives at least as much time to the College now as then...