Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The Williams College Alumni Association of Boston had its seventeenth annual reunion and dinner in that city on Tuesday evening, President Franklin Carter being among the guests. The venerable Mark Hopkins sent his regrets at his inability to be present, and added: "I would like also, if I might, to...
"Talking of the wonders of Phrenology," said the enthusiast, "There is L_, whose bumps were analyzed, and his character determined to be a suitable one for a cavalry officer. Well, sir, in a few months time only, that fellow was know fair and wide for his terrible charges. He had...
The presence of a professional in this sense, however, on the college grounds, if a man of good character might be productive of less harm than intercourse with technical amateurs of lower character. But this did not affect the faculty's position. Their objection was to the introduction of professional...
The views of Chairman Walker, of the New York Board of Education, on the subject of public support of higher education, as recently delivered at the annual meeting of the board, are presented below: Mr. Walker thought higher education should be provided for otherwise than by annual charge upon the...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-Cannot something be done to insure sending a four-oared crew to the intercollegiate regatta to be held at Saratoga on July 4th? The hotels have offered free transportation and accommodation, so that the cost of such a crew would be comparatively slight. The necessary expenses would...