Word: commander
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...published, the Advertiser says: "Such a history as that of Bowdoin is an answer to the inquiry raised not seldom, What end is answered by a country college? The consolidation of the smaller institutions, though they have lived long and honorably, with the colleges whose wealth and high fame command the patronage of the country, is lightly urged. There are cheap colleges by the dozen in America, some of them not worth consolidating with any reputable institution. But New England country colleges, like Dartmouth, Williams, Bowdoin, Amherst, do they deserve the merging which is sometimes flippantly suggested...
...HAVEN, Oct. 25, 1882. - The opening of a new year at Yale has brought with it the return of those interests which usually command our attention in the fall. The freshman class, though at first rumored to be the largest class which had ever entered college, has now assumed the proportions of the average class...
...freshmen attend these lectures. If so, even they go in remarkably small numbers and at long intervals, when we consider how attractive the opportunity is. With a programme which seldom repeats itself, and with such a list of lecturers, it is a mystery to us why they do not command more universal attention...
...discomfiture of Yale. It did, indeed, make a beautiful story to circulate through the country by the media of exchanges. To Mr. Robinson we extend our sympathies, at the same time, however, urging him to remain both where he is so sadly needed and where he can doubtless command a good salary, if their college press is able to help him out." For real imbecility of language and sentiment we must commend this last sentence to students of English literature, while all readers will recognize the beauty of the motives that urge men to speak so politely of a gentleman...
...says: "The Harvard papers have quite taken the lead in the light-story literature toward which nearly all the best college bi-weeklies have been tending during the current year. It has been found that deep and weighty articles, however well thought out and however well written, fail to command the same attention of the readers as light, entertaining stories, setting forth some ridiculous situation or recounting some amusing episode...