Word: ams
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dr. Mark Hopkins, of Williams College, in a recent letter speaks as follows: "I would like also, if I might, to say a word in favor of the college idea as it has existed in this country_that is, the idea of an education distinctively liberal. It has been toward...
But perhaps from a practical standpoint this custom is really objectionable. Formerly, when the entire college furniture was cheap and rough, this carving was a very different matter than it has become now when our buildings are fitted up in a comparatively handsome manner. Even the most partial would freely...
President White in his address to the New York alumni spoke very favorably of the recent changes. He said: I am happy to say that the courses in the ancient classical languages are steadily flourishing. Our policy of confining studies in Greek to those who really want them and will...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-In reading in Tuesday's HERALD-CRIMSON the article entitled "Student Duels in Germany," I noticed some slight mistakes. In the first place a German university knows no distinction of classes, since you go to the university and listen to the lectures, till you think you are...
"We have the boys, sir!" said the old gentleman, with marked emphasis and vivacity, his face lighting up; "we have the boys! They are fine boys! bright boys! good boys! There is in them the making of new Madisons, Jeffersons, Calhouns, Clays! We need such men in the South! We...