Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"Secret societies are an anomalous feature in American college life. A student from Oxford or Paris who visits one of our colleges is surprised to find many of the students decorated with breast-pins, inscribed with Greek characters. These insignia are sometimes wrought in strange forms, such, perhaps, as Anchorites...
Two prizes of one hundred dollars each are offered at Cornell for the best essays on "The Democratic Character of Civil Service Reform" and "The Lessons of the French Revolution to the United States."
To form a disinterested opinion on the abstract question of co-education, it need hardly be said, is a very difficult matter. Indeed it can almost be said that such an opinion is impossible. Co-education is as much a question of distinct practical conditions and local influences as it...
"The deliverance of our colleges from the pranks which formerly broke the slumber of tutors and proctors must be ascribed in part to the indirect influence of the new athletic sports. They afford a vent to the surplus energy of youth, which formerly expended itself in muscular undertakings of a...
"Not venerable years, nor traditions, nor the fame of its learning, nor all these together," says the Magazine, "give name and character to our noblest and best institutions of learning so much as the influence of the men who have gone out from their walls, carrying with them deep and...