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...other than painfully narrow, mechanical, and unnatural in its ordinary condition, he must be a bold man who would affirm." the author then goes on to say, that "there have been within the last fifty years two remarkable movements in popular education which have also largely modified the academical schools. In 1830, New England was the undisputed leader in American education. The system of training was fixed by the leading colleges and academies and was everywhere of the same type. The college curriculum centered on the classics and the mathematics, with marked attention to that type of mental and moral...
...rumored that six members of the Law School are to lease a furnished house...
...eighty-second annual catalogue of Bowdoin College shows that the whole number of students is 202, of whom 108 belong to the academical department and the remainder to the medical school. The faculty numbers twenty-three, thirteen belonging to the academical department...
...recent meeting of the Board of Directors of the Art School at Princeton College, Dr. W. C. Prime reported that he was ready to hand over his valuable collection of pottery and porcelain to the college as soon as a fire-proof building was provided for its reception. It was resolved by the Board to raise $50,000 to erect a wing of a building, to be extended in future years. John I. Blair and Mr. H. Marquand have each given $5,000 for this object...
...exquisite sensibilities of the students of the National College of Pharmacy in Washington, who deserted their school because a colored boy was admitted, have been satisfied by an "understanding" that no more students of the contaminating race will be permitted to study, at that institution, the art of blundering in drugstores. [Times...