Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale law school opened with the largest junior class on record, the number being about 70. In the course of an address of welcome, President Dwight delivered a characteristic speech, in the course of which he said: "I am much gratified to see this department of the university life growing into such a big and earnest school of the science of law. We regard you as part of the university, and desire you to have the spirit of the university and an appreciation of your position...
...HAVEN, Sept. 25.-When President Timothy Dwight heard that Yale had won the boat race over Harvard at New London last June he flung his hat in the air in giving vent to his joy. Probably no one knew better than Yale's enterprising, go-ahead President how much good that victory and the other victories won by the blue-clad athletes were worth to the university. The American youth is essentially either an athlete himself or a lover of athletics, and when he arrives at that stage of life at which he enters college the athletic reputation...
...university was never better illustrated than it is this year. Last Thursday the college opened with by far the biggest freshman class it has ever had, 204 or more in the academic department, and about 100 in the scientific school. Now it cannot be denied that President Dwight's vigorous policy and the athletic triumphs are the two things to which this increase is due. From And over Academy alone there are nearly 30 freshmen. Andover is a preparatory school that takes more interest in athletes than any other institution of its ilk. The young men from that school always...
...Study of Statistics in American Colleges," by Col. Carroll D. Dwight, Commissioner U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics...
...entrance of President Barnard and the other dignitaries was announced by the Lohegrin processional music, performed by the Symphonic Orchestra, under Damrosch. The president and Professors Dwight and Chandler were loudly cheered. After prayer by the chaplain of the college, Marshal Woodford opened the proceedings with an address, sketching the history of the college, and dwelling upon the glory of the future. Chorale, "Awake My Soul." Wagner, by the Oratorio and Symphonic societies followed...