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The New York Evening Post comments as follows on a letter from a correspondent touching the effect on the condition of the American universities of the small pay received by the professors: He contends that a man who has the stuff of a good professor in him, or, as "N...
Our colleges have largely fallen into the same mistake. Not only have they overlooked the great loss of influence, which has overtaken the ministry, and with it the professional calling which was at one time so closely connected with the ministry, and the great changes in the manners and customs...
At Bologna, the ruling power was at first entirely in the hands of the students, they choosing the professors, while at Paris the lecturers alone had authority. The officers were originally a rector and a counselor, with civil officers, such as beadles, notaries, etc. The rector held his place for...
The death of Professor Atwater and the resignation of Professor Shields have materially decreased the teaching force of the college. The proposed "alumni chair" is to offer instruction in the branches formerly taught by these instructors and to form a part of the School of Philosophy.
President Eliot talked about the new Harvard that is and the Harvard that is to be in a rather interesting way at the recent semi-annual meeting of the Rhode Island Harvard Club at Providence. "It is quite evident," he said, "that whatever has been accomplished by even the highest...