Word: commander
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard is the great thing in Boston, as Yale is in New Haven; and the town of Princeton would be unknown were it not for Nassau Hall. Such a state of affairs does not exist here, and yet Columbia is doing a great work with the means at her command." The accounting for this lack of interest by saying Columbia is lost sight of, "surrounded as it is by other institutions of learning, libraries, and museums" is peculiar, as one would expect Harvard to disappear from public view for similar reasons. Mr. Fish seems to have forgotten Tufts, Boston University...
...methods of instruction a large part of the benefit of his teaching, even if there is any real merit in it, is lost. Prescribed courses are at the best apt to be unpopular, and in such cases there is all the more reason for choosing men whose abilities will command the respect of those studying under them, while in the case of elective courses the appointment of an unpopular man inevitably tends to a falling off in the number of those taking the courses under his charge unless the popularity of the elective is kept up by artificial means...
...reason for this condition of affairs. It cannot be that taste and talent have seriously deteriorated. It is possible indeed that college students have become so much more critical and exacting in their demands in this kind of music that it is difficult for amateur composers any longer to command sufficient spontaneity and self-confidence for the production of lively and "taking" college songs. The most plausible explanation of the change, however, is found in the recent growth and wide-spread popularity of comic opera and similar music of the day. It is suggested that these light and popular melodies...
...probably been heard by most students and is, in fact, an old story. But, as Dr. Talmage is himself editor of a prominent New York weekly, one naturally inquires what should lead him to approve so highly of college journalism unless graduated editors of college papers are able to command responsible positions on the city press. The next inter-collegiate press convention may find this an interesting topic for discussion...
...properly elected candidate his rights. If the conspirators succeed in this where will they stop? They now number fully four thousand. All they have to do is to fill every office, State and Federal, with members of the society, and to put none but Alpha Delts in command, either in the army or the navy, and they can then seize the supreme power, and compel every man, woman and child to drink lemonade, eat oysters and wear outlandish breast-pins...