Word: chief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announced that the next number will contain an article by Mr. F. B. Sanborn, the well known critic and author; and that to the December number "J. S. of Dale," the author of Guerndale, will contribute. The following constitute the board of editors of the Monthly: - Editor-in-chief, A. B. Houghton; editors, G. R. Carpenter, W. M. Fullerton, T. P. Sanborn and G. Santayana; business manager, W. W. Baldwin...
...Canon Farrar has for the first time in this country expressed his convictions as to the position of the ancient languages in modern education. The words of such a pronounced classicist deserve the closest consideration. While the great devine does not take such decided ground as his celebrated countryman, chief Justice Coleridge, he still declares himself in favor of the continuance of the study of Greek and Latin as a component part of a college course. He said in a lecture before the students of Johns Hopkins University: "We are the children, after all, of the past, and a comprehension...
...began about half past four, and the twelves continued their play until long after it was dusk. The grass was slippery and the ball was hard to see in the evening light, so that the game was full of errors. Want of practice and training seemed to be the chief faults in the Harvard team, things which will be remedied before the regular spring games are played, but which it has been impossible to overcome this fall because of the short time for preparation, the Montreals being unwilling to longer put off their tour through the United States. Judging from...
...records of the original chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society which was located at William and Mary College have been found. This disposes wholly of the tradition that the organization sprang from a society in Oxford University. Chief Justice Marshall belonged to the original society and Elisha Parmelee brought to New England the charters of the Yale and Harvard chapters.- News...
...hailed by a yell from a thousand throats, and the plaudits of the fair ones in the balconies. On they come, till they are opposite the senior fence; "Halt," cries their leader, and the column comes to a rest. Then the seniors rise, and at the command of their chief give three hearty cheers for '88, who respond by three equally strong ones for '85. Acknowledging this courtesy, '85 gives three more cheers for the freshmen, who doff their hats and move on to the junior fence, where the same scenes are repeated. As they round the corner...