Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last lecture to the freshman class in Greek Etymology, Prof. White took occasion to explain the experiment the faculty are making this year in the system of lectures and conferences for freshmen, and to comment upon its progress thus far. Undoubtedly, if more frequent opportunity of such a sort were taken by members of the faculty to explain and discuss with their classes, and especially with the freshman classes, the status and relations of the various courses and methods of work, a far more cordial and franker feeling would come to subsist between instructors and pupils, and a clearer notion...
...Park, the brilliant actress, Madame Janauschek, is announced. Her reputation as an actress is too well known to call for any comment in our columns. On Monday and Saturday evenings, she appears in "Mary Stuart;" Tuesday and Thursday, in "Bleak House;" on Wednesday evening and at the Saturday matinee, in "Mother and Son;" and Friday evening, "Deborah...
...Much comment has been made by instructors and the college press about the inconvenience caused and time lost when students do not hand in their blue-books promptly. That this is true we do not doubt, but it must be added that the students are not the only ones who cause delay. In a certain examination yesterday morning, the papers were not distributed until twenty minutes past the hour. This delay was not caused by the inspection of the books of men who came in late, but by the non-appearance of the instructor. Let us hope that...
While we cannot but admire the Greek Play as it is produced at the Globe Theatre by professional actors, and fully appreciate the compliment paid to our college by its reproduction in this manner, we feel obliged to comment on the good or bad taste displayed in its presentation in two languages...
...other case to which we refer, and which occasioned considerable comment at the time, was decided against a young man, Hawley by name, who applied for admission to the Indiana State Agricultural College, better known as the Purdue University. He tendered the required fees, affirmed that he was in all respects a fit person to be admitted to the institution, which he declared was maintained by donations from the General and State Governments, a tax-payer of which he was. Mr. Hawley had previously been a student at the university, and at the close of the term last spring...