Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reality a university; if its work be special and elective - election determined by students' judgment - certainly no such college can consistently require attendance upon chapel services. If, again, a college be in part general, in part special, in part college, and in part university, it may not be clear whether such services should be required or not. The question can only be determined in the light of facts surrounding such particular institution. The public and members of faculties of other institutions do not have all the facts which enable them to judge the case. The board of instructors of each...
Those interested in athletics will find Mr. Tyler's article specially entertaining. He gives a clear and very readable account of the revival of foot-ball at Harvard, after it had been under ban for nearly ten years...
...saved. Despite this objection, the plan seems a good one, for the advantage gained from the superior knowledge acquired by the students would more than counterbalance any objections like the above, and if anyone doubts the existence of this superior knowledge, let him try and write a good, clear, well written thesis on some subject, and let him see what kind of a result he will obtain, unless he knows a good deal about his subject...
...reviewer continues: "Professor Laughlin's work is an extremely pains taking collection and methodical arrangement of all the facts needed by the student, the statesman, or the editor to fit him for taking part in this battle. Along with the collection of material we have a clear and dispassionate argument, not of the controversial sort, maintaining the views held by nearly all economists of the present day on the subject of monetary standards...
...Charleston, S. C., a few days ago, while the janitor of the Charleston College was ringing the college bell to summon the students to their respective rooms and had just given it a few taps, suddenly the unusually clear and musical tones of the bell became harsh and discordant. On examination it was found that the bell was cracked completely through from top to bottom. The accident possesses some interest by reason of the fact that the bell surpasses in antiquity even the oldest of St. Michael's bells. Its beautiful tones are familiar to Charleston's oldest scholars...