Word: credited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Local Committee on Harvard Examinations for Women has offered a scholarship of three hundred dollars as a prize to the candidate who shall pass the examination in New York with the highest credit. The scholarship is intended as an inducement chiefly to those women who desire to use the money for the purpose of pursuing their studies during the coming year at any college chosen by them and approved by the above named committee. A fund for a second scholarship of a similar nature is now being raised. The examinations will be held in the rooms of the Young...
...been brought to light which is thought to prove that Icaria was the birthplace of the drama. According to the old Greek legends, this place was the seat of the drama, but no proof could be found to confirm this supposition. The success of Mr. Buck reflects great credit upon himself and the American School as being the first to settle the location beyond a doubt. The New York Nation gives a very accurate description of the excavations and the famous Dr. Curtins of Berlin has written a very complimentary review in a German newspaper. A report of the work...
...such a step; the second one begs for a half course in elementary astronomy, without mathematics. If the curriculum is to be extended for the year 1888-89 there is no good ground for denying the petitions, especially as upwards of forty signatures have been placed to the credit of the first one; and though the astronomy petition was only set before the students yesterday, some ten men have already been signed, each one pledging himself to take the course next year in case the request should prove successful. The authorities can have no better way of judging what should...
...Pierian played but twice, and received a warm response. The Banjo Club, as usual, made a decided hit. The two soloists, Mr. Loeb, '88, and Mr. Longworth, '91 were both encored. The managers are to be congratulated for the success of the affair, though the musical clubs get the credit of presenting the crew with something over $500, thus materially aiding their financial condition...
...petition to the faculty asking for the establishment of a course or half-course in elocution has been started by the members of Mr. Hayes's voluntary courses. The petition asks for the signatures of all students who would like to see credit given for the work in this study. The burden of the petition seems to be a statement that the elocution as taught here to-day is a very different thing from the old school style of declamation which had its uses some years ago, but which now has lost all hold upon sensible man. What is aimed...