Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hath skill in making verse, and is competently grounded in the Greeke language, so as to be able to construe and grammatically resolve ordinary Greeke - as the Greeke Testament, Isocrates and the Minor Poets, or such like, - haveing withall meet testimony of his towardness." Then follow rules of conduct, one (rule 6) being of the most comprehensive nature...
...noise and uproar in New Haven on the evening of the day on which the game took place to our freshmen. The last issue of the Courant, however, contained an editorial excusing them somewhat. This editorial is as follows : "We think the Lit's strictures in regard to the conduct of the Harvard freshmen, two weeks ago, a trifle uncalled for. If any, our own freshmen should be held responsible for what seemed, perhaps, cheeky on the part of our Harvard friends. It may have been poor taste on the part of the latter to act as they...
...have serious doubts as to New York becoming the centre of the intellectual gravity of America, we think that the care and earnestness shown by Columbia College in the advancement of one of the most useful and pleasant branches of modern study are to be heartily commended. This conduct in the light of modern views and purposes is in the right spirit. When one considers the prevailing tendency of American feelings, it will be seen that the future success of American colleges will depend to a great extent upon the success with which they combine the aesthetic and utilitarian...
...says the last Orient, "in regard to the library, may commend itself to 'the powers that be,' but we venture to state that it certainly will never be endorsed by the greater part of the students in whose interests the library ought to be run." The absurdity of such conduct on the part of an institution that desires to be classed among the first schools of America, that boasts of its willingness to aid its pupils in the free and fearless discussion of all the problems that now occupy the attention of the learned world, cannot fail to bring home...
...obtain practice. If the authorities will repeal this decree professional clubs can be invited, and will gladly accept, to play the 'Varsity in Cambridge, and in this way the best interests of all will be subserved; for while there may be well founded objections to playing professional teams, their conduct has always been found as gentlemanly and respectable as that of amateurs...