Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The inauguration of President Kirkland is described on page 239. I select a sentence or two for quotation: "The friends of classical literature were highly gratified that His Excellency the Governour for his inductive address made an election of the Latin language. We cannot forbear thanking him [Dr. Thacher] for...
Compulsory chapel is not a popular institution at any college. It is an evil that has to be endured quite generally, however. This is how the students at the University of Pennsylvania endure it, according to the University Magazine: "A stranger coming into chapel would be much shocked at the...
The News attempts to extenuate the recent disgraceful action of the thirteen seniors at Trinity, in upholding the slighted honor of the "Grand Tribunal." It states that "a committee of the remaining members of the class are out in a statement in which they deplore the exaggerated accounts that have...
Hilliard & Metcalf, Cambridge, published the Lyceum, as they did later the Register and the Collegian. The paper appeared semi-monthly and had as chief editor Edward Everett. In their "Address," the editors proclaim it to be the object of their paper to present the "many valuable hints suggested in a...
The action of the gentleman, at Williams, in refusing the position of valedictorian, because he regarded it as an honor obtained from the marks he had received by a system that he did not approve, has called forth many articles on the method employed of distinguishing the different grades of...