Word: anent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems hardly necessary to call attention to the undeniable statements, anent the Glee Club dances, made in a communication in to-day's issue of the CRIMSON. The troubles referred to have, for a long time, been obvious enough, and to outsiders it looks remarkably like carelessness and a lack of pains that these otherwise enjoyable occasions should be marred by faults so easily removed. Where the pleasure of so many is concerned, members of the committee who have the arrangements in charge should give themselves no rest until these improvements are effected...
...Princeton men are very confident in their hopes of victory for their eleven. The Yale Record, however, anent a recent editorial in a Princeton paper, grimly remarks that foot ball games are not won on paper...
...Anent the Harvard Annex the Brunonian says: "What effect the advent of five or six hundred studiously-in-clined young women would have upon the spirit of our venerable sister college, we can scarcely predict. The question may soon be solved, however; for, unless the signs of the times are most deceptive, the university will, in the near future, be opened, even the Veterinary Department, to the fair sex, and the ancient halls may, ere long, resound throughout to the tread of lighter feet...
...Anent the recent announcement that students of Harvard University could now become candidates for honors in Political Science, we wish to call attention to the "Privat-Docent" system that has just been established at that energetic institution, Columbia College: "The 'Privat-Docent' system is one established at the German universities, which enables graduates of these institutions, who may have distinguished themselves in any branch, to deliver lectures in that branch at one of the universities. To this system, it is generally admitted, the preeminent rank of German universities, and the high development of German intellectual life is largely...
...wish to say a few words anent the communication that appears in another column, for whether it is owing to parsimony or some other hidden cause, it still remains an enigma why a better attendance has not been given to the lectures under the auspices of the Art and Philological Societies for the benefit of the Assos expedition. The first, on the OEdipus, by Prof. Packard, drew but a very meagre audience. Mr. Agassiz was better supported, as was Prof. Goodwin, but in no wise as they should have been. The lectures have been exceptionally good, dealing with a class...