Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday in New York, there was organized a body which will be known as the American Foot-Ball Union, and only clubs playing under intercollegiate rules will be eligible to membership. The objects of the Union are to promote foot-ball interests, and to arrange each season a schedule of intercollegiate matches...
...course. The commendations of it, which the men have so stoutly opposed it are now forced to make in justification of the change, form interesting reading to those of us who have long believed that there was no solution of the problem of meeting the demands properly made on American colleges, save by introducing some flexibility into the old traditional curriculum. The fear often expressed that students will generally abuse or unwisely use the liberty granted them of choosing to some extent their studies has not been shown by our experience to be well founded. Doubtless a few indolent persons...
...among Harvard students, as claimed by Prof. Palmer. Prof. Ladd finds this same spirit of the gentleman at Yale, and asserts that it is general in all of our colleges, that it cannot be attributed to any new system of education, but is a mark of the advance of American civilization...
Professor J. W. White, as chairman of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, has just issued his annual report. It is addressed to the Council of Archaeological Institute of America. The death of Prof. Lewis R. Packard, of Yale, one of the Directors of the School, has crippled the management. Referring to him Prof. White writes: "The Committee feel keenly the loss that classical studies have sustained in the death at middle age of a man in whom were united in happy adjustment such thoroughness of training, high scholarship, independence of opinion, and ready...
English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Mr. Dickerman. The Problem of American Shipping. Sever...