Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The disgraceful disturbance in the freshman classical lecture yesterday was of such a character as to deserve the severest censure. Harvard students have been supposed to pride themselves on their reputation for gentlemanliness. Such performances as these do not go to increase that reputation.
In addition to an advanced course of thesis and seminar work in topics of English and American Constitutional and Political history, which we advocated a few days ago and which seems to us the greatest need of the history department today, there is still another course which has been suggested...
In the course of a reply to an address from McGill University recently, the governor-general of Canada stated that he was struck by the obvious desire of the authorities to spread their advantages as widely as possible over Canada; not to make them the privilege of the few and...
Ralph Waldo Emerson entered the freshman class, in his fourteenth year, in 1817. Dr. Kirkland was then president of the university and Edward Everett professor of Greek literature. Among the other professors were Edward Channing and Ticknor. Emerson was greatly influenced throughout his course by the inspiration which Ticknor brought...
Miss Sadie Hall, a woman of thirty-five or forty, has brought suit against the editors of the Wooster Collegian, the organ of the University of Wooster, for libeling her good name and character, placing the amount of damages at $100,000. In several numbers of the Collegian, the editors...