Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many students fully appreciate the relative importance of these events? The newspapers do little to aid us. A polo match, a scandal, or a murder is honored with as prominent a place in their columns, and is as heavily leaded as the account of the downfall of a ministry. In their editorials party wranglings find play ad nauseam. In the maze of news, rumor, gossip and scandal, he is indeed clear sighted who can find his way. The need and usefulness of a course in contemporaneous history will hardly be questioned. Whether such a course is feasible and practicable, will...
...York World of Sunday sold immensely on account of the article on Yale college; the last copies sold at 25 cents...
Under this title, a recent magazine article gives an account of a visit to that beautiful suburb of London, Harrow, and also of its famous preparatory school. Harrow and Eton are the two great English preparatory schools, and are characterized, only to a lesser extent, by the same rivalry and spirit of contention that the great universities of Cambridge and of Oxford display towards each other. Harrow is among schools a venerable patriarch, being founded in 1571, but still is obliged to assume the humble position of younger brother with reference to Eton, which came into existence about one hundred...
...athletics, Harrow is, of course, actively interested. The Thames is convenient for boating, and Eton gives fine practice to all the Harrow foot-ball and cricket teams. There is a great annual cricket match between the two schools, which calls forth, on account of the proximity of London, a tremendous crowd of spectators. This game may be called the closing event of the London season, as the Oxford-Cambridge boat race may be said to inaugurate the season. The fashionable Londoner makes it a point to attend both events, if it be possible...
More interest is taken in debating societies at Princeton than at any other college. The article which we publish this morning gives an interesting account of her debating clubs and the energy with which they are conducted. Ever since the Princeton faculty forbade the existence of secret societies some years ago, new life has been infused into her parliamentary bodies. So long, of course, as we have our secret organizations we cannot expect that debating societies should absorb so much of our interest as at Princeton, but excepting the college of New Jersey, probably no college takes so much interest...