Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young ladies' at Cornell are said to surpass in scholarship the male students. - Yale News...
...things that are so easily kept separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then a student only wastes time by trying to learn a foreign language, and that he may nevertheless attain a fair degree of scholarship in other departments. Some students who make little progress in the dead languages do fairly well with the living. The mind of one learner may be most effectively trained by means of one science, that of another, by another. And it is not asking our college authorities to do an unreasonable thing when we demand that...
...when President Eliot of Harvard University has gone to Europe for a well-deserved vacation, it would perhaps be not out of place to comment on the tremendous progress which Harvard has made under his administration. The corps of instructors, containing some of the most eminent names in American scholarship and letters has been doubled; the size of the classes has increased from about one hundred to very nearly three; and the great elective system, broadening, expanding and enlightening the minds and purposes has been brought to a state of perfection which Yale and Princeton must follow, or be worse...
...enabled to extend his researches to Asia Minor, from which he brought away a collection of over nine hundred inscriptions which, in the opinion of the great European epigraphists, is second to no other in historical value, and will, when edited and published, add great luster to American scholarship in the person of Doctor Sterrett...
Foxcroft, Matthews Scholarship...