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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...devoted to some of the very elementary studies will be cut down, and other studies be introduced earlier in the course, when the young mind is as ready to grasp them. In this way the ground now covered by the grammar schools will be gone over in a much shorter time. From the recommendations of the Association it is difficult to make out whether they mean the grammar school course to be shortened, or whether it should remain the same length but carry the pupil further. In either case the change would have its effect on the colleges...
...immense help to them when they come to run at college. This school training shows itself in two ways when the fellows come to college: first, there is a higher quality of athletics in the entering class and the material can be worked into first class shape in a shorter time; and second, more material is apt to present itself to be worked up. If the boys have run while in school, they will be much more apt to come forward as competitors in college, than if their attention had never before been called to running or jumping. While interscholastic...
Professor Lovering has delivered nine courses of twelve lectures each, before the Lowell Institute, on astronomy and physics. He also gave shorter lecture courses at the Smithsonian Institute, the Peabody Institute of Baltimore, the Charitable Mechanics Institute of Boston and in many cities and towns of New England. His books and scientific articles contributed to magazines number over a hundred in all. Perhaps his best-known writing is on the Aurora Borealis. Among the magazines that he wrote for are the American Journal of Science, the Journal of the Franklin Institute, the American Almanac, the North American Review, the Christian...
...very much aided in the growth of the institute by Mr. George W. Childs, who with Mr. Drexel and his son compose the board of trustees. A most distinguished assemblage witnessed the dedicatory exercises last week where Mr. Chauncey M. Depew delivered the address which was followed by a shorter one by James Mac Alister L. L. D. the president of the Institute...
Among some of the shorter contributions, is a clever, artistic story, full of humor and quiet pathos, called "Only an Incident," also a well-written study of impressionism in words by Alfred D. F. Hamlin, entitled "Pen Pictures of the Bosphorus...