Word: childe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubt that if the alumni gave what they can well afford to give, and what they would probably be willing to give if they fully understood the facts, a fund could be accumulated which would yield an income sufficient to pay men like Professors Bowen, Child, Norton, Gibbs, Cooke, Dunbar, Peirce, Goodale, Shaler and Royce amounts nearly as large as they could earn by their pens if they devoted their entire time to literary work. At pres serving the university. It is to their credit that they make this sacrifice, but it is anything but creditable for the Harvard alumni...
...seniors, chose to go down in the mud and bite car tracks, that is an eminently respectable thing for them to do. They are not "fresh." They are only clinging to the last relics of a vanished childhood. But he, the freshman, with all the innocent freedom of a child in bib and tucker, has also all said child's ignorance of convention. This let him put in his pipe- if he can use one-and smoke, for we speak to him of the fullness of our heart or hearts (for, like the grilse, we have...
...great change, however, comes in the English department. English 6 has been revived, but is open only to seniors; 13 is a new course, and will be given in successive years with 1 and 11; Spenser and the English Bible will be studied under Professor Child; Mr. Wendell has been given English 14, which will meet once a week and study the English drama, exclusive of Shakspere; the second half year Professor Briggs will meet a course in English literature from Shakspere to Dryden, exclusive of Milton; 7 and 8 have been given a companion course, numbered 9; it will...
General Francis A. Walker and Professor Goodwin were among those honored Saturday by Columbia College with the title of LL. D., while Alice E. Freeman, president of Wellesley College, and Professor Child of Harvard were among those who received the title of doctor of letters. D. D. was conferred upon Rev. Phillips Brooks...
...present time the results in accuracy, if not in facility, of arithmetical work leave very much to be desired. Scarcely has the child been taught to count as high as 10, when he is put at technical applications of arithmetic, to money coins, to divisions of time, space, etc.; and these technical applications are increased in number and in difficulty through the successive years of the grammar school, until for a large amount of so-called arithmetic the pupil gets comparatively little practice in the art of numbers. I am far from saying that the pupils of our public schools...