Word: calls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...difficult for a Harvard man of today to call up a picture of the college life of half a century ago. Of course, a batch of picked men, interested in preparing for life, will be like another body with the same interest, though half a century parts them. But the methods of study are quite different now from what they were between 1830 and 1840; and the great increase in the number of students brings a hundred changes. The Cambridge of that day was much more distant from Boston than is that of today; for a regular line, even...
...that time, with one or two of what we call voluntary studies, which were, I think, all in the modern languages, the general drift of the college required the same work from one man as it did from another. There was a good classical course, a good mathematical course, almost nothing in natural history, good teaching in the modern languages, and excellent training in English. The courses in political economy, metaphysics, and morals were interesting, though they did not go far. Such as they were, these were almost the same for everybody; one man might take Spanish and another Italian...
...class races, but to win the race with Columbia next June, they need to make every effort and to make use of the best and sturdiest material in the class, which material is represented by the football men. We urge every one of these men to respond to the call of the captain of the crew and present himself as a candidate. The class and the college needs them, and they will be acting foolishly and shamefully if, satisfied with having belonged to a victorious freshman eleven, they expect to see their crew successful through their inaction and lack...
...Talladge College, Ala., asks for the colored scholars in the mission schools in that region secondhand clothing of all kinds, including rubber boots and waterproof coats. Students and others who are willing to help him can send their address to A. B. Seymour, 12 Farwell Place, who will call for the goods and ship them to Alabama...
...Talladge College, Ala., asks for the colored scholars in the mission schools in that region secondhand clothing of all kinds, including rubber boots and waterproof coats. Students and others who are willing to help him can send their address to A. B. Seymour, 12 Farwell Place, who will call for the goods and ship them to Alabama...