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The visit of a couple of West Point instructors to the college some few weeks ago, on a tour of inspection in order to discover, if possible, any new methods or improvements in teaching which might be introduced at West Point, will be remembered. After visiting Harvard, Yale, and some...
Dr. Lyman Abbott in a recent article on Rugby, gives a description of life at this popular English school so well known to every reader of "Tom Brown's School Days." "The public school is divided into different 'houses.' The pupil enters a house just as at Oxford or Cambridge...
Are students attracted to Harvard by the fame of particular instructors? In our opinion, a negative answer can be safely given to this query which brings up a distinctive feature of American and English universities as compared with German institutions. In Germany students are attracted by the peculiar brilliancy of...
It is a noted fact that a very small proportion of Princeton's graduates devote themselves to professional teaching. This fact strikes us the more forcibly when we consider the large number of graduates of Harvard, and especially of Yale, now engaged in the schools and colleges all over the...
Though the appointment of professors and instructors in the various departments should by no means rest with the students, still the feeling of the students in regard to appointments ought not to be overlooked. If the students cannot respect an instructor's methods of instruction a large part of the...