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Word: characterizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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The revision of the foot-ball rules has wrought a complete change in the character of the game, and has done away with many, if not all, of its objectionable features. Under the new order of things we fail to see how the authorities can find grounds for continuing their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/9/1885 | See Source »

During the past few years the college press has teemed with complaints about the condition of the atmosphere in recitation rooms; men have been packed to suffocation in some of the smaller rooms, the large sections in some courses making this in many instances unavoidable, but often the complaints were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/7/1885 | See Source »

Just at this critical moment, when a change of domicile seems a question of life or death, the residence of the late Judge Fay, well-known in Cambridge, is offered to us at a reasonable price. The house is substantially built of brick, and, while it is large enough to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Annex. | 6/13/1885 | See Source »

President McCosh of Princeton takes issue somewhat with this view of the case. He does not hold to the old idea of twenty years ago, which prescribed a cast-iron curriculum for the entire college course, to which all alike must conform without any latitude of choice. Neither does he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Constitutes a Liberal Education. | 6/11/1885 | See Source »

"The extinction of disinterested study is a necessary consequence of the encouragement to cram. When the best and most receptive years of a man's life have been passed in having the doctrine ground into him, that the end of all study is to cheat the examiner, and that knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Examination System II. | 6/10/1885 | See Source »

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