Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot talked about the new Harvard that is and the Harvard that is to be in a rather interesting way at the recent semi-annual meeting of the Rhode Island Harvard Club at Providence. "It is quite evident," he said, "that whatever has been accomplished by even the highest...
The Boston Post wayside writer has the following to say in regard to a familiar character: "While penning this paragraph, in relation to the genus tramps and beggars, I had a call from the king tramp of this country, Gen. Daniel Pratt, who has travelled so extensively through Uncle Sam...
We understand that a committee from the corporation and from the board of overseers has been considering the question of a radical change in the requirements for admission to the college as well as a corresponding change in making the work of the freshman year wholly or in part elective...
The industrial problem was first discussed. Agriculture is too much in the hands of large land-holders. Mr. Page described the character and manner of living of the farming population of North Carolina, and kept the audience in continual good humor with his apt word pictures. "No other people in...
The horizon of college politics is again overcast, and angry mutterings of discontent are heard. Cornell has been afflicted with a student election, in which there was much bitterness and ill-feeling shown, and in which, if we may judge from the account of the matter in the Sun, some...