Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with Andover. '88 seem to have acquitted themselves so far on the foot ball field with considerable credit. Their game with Adams, although against a very weak eleven, showed that they knew how to work together and to work quickly as so large a score as 69 does not admit of much dilly-dallying. The Andover game was played against worthy opponents who, all confess, played a good game. The better playing of the '88 men alone carried them to victory. Andover is a school which infuses so much life into its athletics, that its teams, especially elevens, are very...
...University is to have a new gymnasium, something which it has long needed. The movement began at the last annual meeting of the alumni in June, when a committee of ten arumm was selected to take the matter in charge. As the common fund of the college will not admit of any sum being appropriated for this need, it is proposed to acquire the amount by subscription. The sum which will be needed is estimated at $80,000, and of this about $50,000 will be used to erect and equip a building, first class in every particular...
...liberal education?" Upon the proper definition of this expression then hangs the true meaning of a liberal education? It is at this idea of a liberal education that all the late agitation among scholars and students is aimed. To produce a change and provoke a revolution that will admit into our colleges and schools the proper curriculum for inculcating a liberal education is the sole purpose of the present lengthened discussion. Every advance in science and philology, every newly arising social or political requirement, every increase in commercial and industrial extension, in short, every new demand upon the energy...
...questions are answered so differently by persons whose opinions are worthy of consideration should not lead any student to think that it is unnecessary or impossible for him to answer them. The fact that such antagonists between the supporters of the opposite views indicate that the questions do not admit of a universal answer, but that they should be differently answered by each individual. Harvard stands first among the colleges of the new world in recognizing the principle that each student should be allowed to select his studies in accordance with his own wishes, adjusting his course to his objects...
...Oxford student is allowed to enter or leave the university after nine o'clock. The gates are shut at this time, but the payment of a fine, graded according to the gravity of the offence, will admit the tardy student even after this late hour. This regulation and one forbidding students to walk up the river in the morning, and another forbidding students to walk on "The High" in study hours, without cap and gowns, are relics of the old system of police regulations which used to exist in all colleges and universities in olden times. These last two regulations...