Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American Oriental Society held its ninety-sixth session at the University of Pennsylvania last week. Professor D. G. Lyon, the secretary of the society, read several papers, and Professor C. H. Toy also took a prominent part...
...session of the Harvard Union last night in Sever 11 was exceptionally well attended, there being 266 men present. Shortly after the meeting was called to order, the report of the chairman of the committe on the election canvass of the University was rendered as follows...
...first session the question "Is a modification of the present modern language requisitions to college desirable," was discussed at length. It was stated that Harvard erred in the moral quality of the French it required its students to read. Professor Cohn replied to this charge in a very able manner and ardently defended the French department at Harvard...
...evening session, President Kendall of Cornell read a paper on "The Teaching of Pedagogy in Colleges and Universities." He contrasted our public schools with the German gymnasium and real schools, and showed American schools to be greatly inferior. The remedy he said was in a systematic teaching of pedagogy in American colleges...
...physical culture among young men in college. There is reason to believe that if the importance of this subject has not been exaggerated, at least the methods employed for encouraging it have been more or less mistaken. It is too often the case that at the beginning of a session young men are animated for a week or two by a very lively zeal to participate in athletic sports which in a brief period wears itself out; after which the gymnasium is for the most part deserted. What is more likely to happen is the selection of a limited number...