Word: afresh
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...took place last evening in Upper Massachusetts hall. Mr. Woodbury called the meeting to order a little after 7 o'clock and the business began with the officers' reports. President Balch began his report with a resume of the Mott Haven cup controversy which broke out afresh last year. This matter has been at last settled and Harvard is to keep the cup in 1890 in any case. He then spoke about the winter meetings; the tediousness of so much wrestling on the first day and his disapproval of all sparring on Ladies Day. This he would remedy by putting...
...championship": and so on ad nauseum. And often too, there is some truth in these statements. For, relying on the powers of a few men, we have made no attempt to bring out the skill which may exist in other quarters. Hence, we have substantially to start afresh whenever a team loses several of its strongest...
...periodical discussion as to how the expense of a college course nowadays compared with the cost a generation ago, has been started afresh by some talk on the subject at a recent reunion of the Yale alumni in Springfield, Mass. The great difficulty about reaching a just conclusion is the lack of sufficient trustworthy data. Startling stories are told as to the extravagant sums which are spent by rich youths at New Haven or Cambridge, and listeners at once jump to the conclusion that only millionaires can foot the bills of a student at Harvard or Yale. Even the average...
...college cannot afford in any way to endanger the efficiency of the instruction of the freshman year; and yet it has been rumored that it has been deemed best to make retrenchment in that direction. Now while Oxford has just stated afresh her doctrine that her professorships are established primarily for purposes of teaching and not for purposes of research, it would seem to be poor policy for Harvard to take measures for economy in her teaching force in preference to economizing in her expenditures in the cause of original research first. A truly liberal policy would call for attention...