Word: acception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Sylvester, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, was formally elected Savilian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, England, on Wednesday last. It has been understood for some time that he would accept...
...work. Already, in many of the more advanced courses, it is impossible to do much except in the library. The instructors are every year requiring more library work; every year students learn at an earlier period of their college course how to make use of the library, and to accept the great advantages it offers. Under such circumstances we cannot but feel very envious when we read that the library of Columbia College is to be open evenings and lighted by electricity. When we consider that the great bulk of the work here is done in the evening, and that...
...replaced we are sure that then our chances for success in general athletics would be vastly improved. Mr. Robinson is in perfect harmony with the Princeton faculty, and only a day before our game was congratulated by some of them on his successful treatment, and was pressed to accept an engagement for another year. It is believed we could yet secure his services if our faculty would only overcome their prejudices, for "Jim" has not yet lost his well known devotion to Harvard...
...doubt that investigation will do good to almost anything, we fear that any investigation of such a subject as secret societies will result in nothing but angry defiance on the part of the students who naturally feet that their privileges are being violated. Undergraduates are not apt to accept with any degree of grace, dictation from their alumni, believing as they do that they themselves are reasonable beings and can institute reforms if reforms be needed. The undergraduates of Harvard have already had a taste of indiscreet graduate interference in the matter of the disputed Colombia race and the dose...
...models constructed by the ancients and intended to show animals in motion, when compared with the cuts taken by Mr. Muybridge served to show the erroneous impressions held by even the most observing of the ancient and in fact modern artists. It is the intention of Mr. Muybridge to accept the offer of the University of Pennsylvania to spend the summer in making investigations and so far perfecting his system of photography as to be able to show even the action of the muscles, thereby rendering the invention of more practical utility for the purposes of artists and sculptors...