Word: currently
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter is causing considerable excitement here, and may call forth a reply to his letter. The report has been current among the papers that Williams students broke up an entertainment here, and were so disorderly at one given in North Adams, that the police were called in. Both of these reports are fabrications, and utterly false...
...Stanley Hall was recently appointed university lecturer on pedagogy for "the current year." When are his lectures to commence, and what will be the character of the course, voluntary, or subject to examination...
...current Nation contains a well-considered editorial, upon "Yale and Harvard," suggested by the recent reports of Presidents Porter and Eliot, which we commend to the attention of all college men. The writer compares the Yale system to the great schools of England, Eton and Rugby, and finds the Harvard theory to be an approximation to the type of the European university. Commenting upon the disadvantages of the method of strict regulations and supervision imposed upon students at Yale, he says: "No efficient seat of learning can, with any endowment which any American college now possesses or hopes to possess...
...account of the resignation of Dr. Peabody a change had to be effected in the divine services. Nine ministers, belonging to four different denominations, will, accordingly, conduct prayers, each for about a month during the current year. After some experiments the two ministers, members of the board of overseers - Rev. Drs. Edward E. Hale and Phillips Brooks - who conducted prayers during October and November, settled upon an interesting order of service, in which the daily responsive reading of a psalm was introduced...
...laboratories, and abolish a few unimportant courses of instruction, the loss of which, they believe, will not be seriously felt. They see some reason to believe, moreover, that the number of students will next year increase. It will, however, be impossible to avoid a large deficit for the current year...