Word: among
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discovery of a new movement among the students has caused an indefinite postponement of the opening of the universities at Moscow...
...Conference meeting. said that few students imagined the importance to the faculty of college public opinion. as in many cases the faculty were powerless without it. Drinking, cheating and lying are cases where the only cure is in the education of public opinion. Another example is the toleration among gentlemen of foul play in athletics, making an umpire needful to punish it. Howling at "errors" is extremely ungenerous and unsportsman-like. and is never seen in English universities. The chief object of college education is to implant in tellectual ambition and a high purpose, and this can be done only...
...bright verse. The story itself is very obscure, and is no more than a foundation on which the writer bases his many digressions. But it is, nevertheless, amusing, and no one can read of the old landmarks and customs, which have long since passed away, without interest and pleasure. Among other things an "exhibition" day is described with vigor and considerable humor. Unfortunately the work is scarce and is, therefore, the more to be treasured, not especially on account of its literary merit, but for its portrayal of the Harvard life of half a century...
...previous there was a surplus of $2999.46. The divinity school has a surplus of $880.52, the law school of $2850.38, the medical school a deficit of $11.74, the dental school a deficit of $345.19, the veterinary school a surplus of $652.22, and a surplus for the Lawrence Scientific school. Among the gifts received during the year there were the following which were over $1000: George B. Dorr estate, $4785.89; Robert Treat Paine estate, $1500; Francis E. Parker estate, $91,504.99; Miss Anna C. Lowell, toward the fund for a botanic garden, $1000; Henry Gassett estate, for sustaining annual dinner...
...There is so much spoken and unspoken criticism of Harvard College that those who know the inner working of life among the mass of students are sometimes moved to anger and sometimes to mirth by the condition of the public mind towards institutions of education. Many seem to regard Harvard as a patent machine, warranted by the corporation and faculty to take any material in its grip, and, after four years, turn out a first-class scholar and gentleman. No matter how ill prepared, how feeble the mind, how powerless the will, how vicious the habits, how indolent the nature...