Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great pity that at a pleasant reunion such as this, Captain Peters could not have laid aside his ancient and well-known grudge against Harvard; but it is a still greater pity that he should so far forget himself at a public dinner as to speak in such ungentlemanly and ungenerous terms of a defeated rival. There are, of course, two explanations: Either Captain Peters is no gentleman - which we are loath to suppose - or he was so under the influence of sparkling Hock and iced Moselle that he did not know what he was talking about...
Recitations and lectures were held from eight o'clock in the morning until four in the afternoon, three years being the original undergraduate course. The scriptures were carefully studied, and the ancient languages, Chaldee, Syriac, Greek and Latin, formed a large part of the curriculum. Besides this motley array of languages, mathematics, physics, astronomy, politics, ethics, logic, style, imitation, epitome and declamation were required branches. History formed a part of the regular work in winter, and was superseded by botany in the summer months. One cannot help being amazed at the thought of this vast array of learning being crammed...
Prof. Lanciani lectured on Medical and Ancient libraries at the University of Pennsylvania last Friday...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: It may seem somewhat rash at the present time to suggest the formation of another club. None the less I should like to do so. The departments of French, German and the Ancient languages have a Conference, a Verein and a Classical Club. Why should there not be an English Literature Club for the benefit of men interested in English, whether taking courses in it or not? It seems to me that an organization embracing both instructors and undergraduates would do much towards removing grounds for the ocmplaint of deadness in the English department. The undergraduates should...
...critics in regard to what he calls a "petty difficulty," I may perhaps be allowed to say, in my own and others' behalf, that it is a very poor answer to those who claim that the Bachelor's degree ought not to be disturbed in the possession of its ancient privileges. If it is a matter of small consequence, the innovators will act wisely by leaving the conservatives in possession of the old and betaking themselves to the new; the latter do not think it a matter of small importance. I am a thorough believer in the elective system...