Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Johnston, in his address, said that an impression had gone abroad that foot ball and base base were the principal studies at Princeton, but that was due to the fact that the college was able, with a small number of undergrades, to send out teams which held their own with colleges of more numerous students. He thought there was too much attention paid to athletics by the first term freshmen, as it often caused their failure to pass examination at the end of the term. He favored giving them another examination before the beginning of the second term...
...though it were something well known to them; but such is not the case with most of us. If there are similar clubs, they are but little known; if your correspondents have a clear idea of what the club is to be, they certainly have not spread it abroad among their fellows; in our darkness we cry: "Do stop reasoning about the advantages and disadvantages of such a club, long enough to tell us what the club shall be." When we know this, we will judge of its value. How shall the club be organized? What accommodations will it provide...
...announcement was made in our issue of yesterday of a new university with a princely endowment to be founded in Massachusetts. We certainly would not say a word to discourage the use of wealth for the spreading abroad of education in any part of the world whatsoever. Such affection would ill befit us above all others, since we enjoy the highest of such advantages for learning. But we think more discretion might be observed in the manner of employing such an amount of money. If this million and a half had been given to some of the struggling universities...
...different departments which our Alma Mater provides for our use. We draw students from all over the world; no college - not even Harvard - has men from so many foreign countries. Two-thirds of the States of the Union are represented on our rolls. Alumni who have studied abroad can testify that they have seen a passage in Aristotle "stump" a whole class in Berlin University, until it came to one of our own graduates, who translated it with ease. "What gymnasium did you come from?" asked the celebrated professor. "From none, sir; from the University of Pennsylvania...
...come. This could hardly have been said of the college before, within the memory of present undergraduates and only last year changes were wrought which greatly required his presence. We know that we express the hopes of the whole university, that safety and pleasure may attend President Eliot while abroad and that prosperous journeying will return him safe to the university in the fall...