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...town yesterday tried the apparatus himself, though, he says the results must not be taken as his stroke for he was not in proper condition to show his real curves. He recommends the machine as a useful aid in coaching. Nevertheless, the University crew has not yet decided to employ it. - Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 5/10/1887 | See Source »

...Higginson's own words, that "a mere obiter dictum is taken up" and made too much of. On the whole the fair-minded reader must acknowledge that Mr. Hamerton has not gotten the upper hand in the discussion. In fact, it is astonishing that he does not employ more strict logic in refuting the charges brought against him. No American can hesitate to uphold Col. Higginson's side of the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Harvard Monthly." | 3/16/1887 | See Source »

...secure it in its permanent usefulness the school must now be intrusted to the care of a larger public. It is proposed to raise a general fund of a hundred thousand dollars for the development and endowment of the school and in particular to employ a director of the highest fitness and ability. Our readers need no introduction to the archaeologist, Charles Waldstein, a native of New York, but now connected with the University of Cambridge, England, and with the Fitzwilliam Museum. The committee in charge of the school wishes to redeem the character of America, and to secure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American School at Athens. | 2/2/1887 | See Source »

...town at about half-past one o'clock and returns before six. If for example a man wishes to send a message in town in the afternoon and to receive a reply in three or four hours, it is very convenient and a great economy in time to employ the messenger. Moreover, it is a great satisfaction to know that a commission will be executed promptly; for the Co-operative guarantees that there be no unnecessary delay. But to enumerate the advantages of the system is simply to state what all can see. We simply wish to emphasize the fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/14/1887 | See Source »

...worship, situated in the heart of a great and thriving community, will be closed for lack of worshippers. Each student is now expected to exercise, while a resident of the university, that discretion in attending divine worship which as a member of a Christian home he is wont to employ. If it can be demonstrated by an actual diminution in the number of those present at Chapel that the petition which met with such support from the students was dictated by other than a spirit of adherence to principle, it can be urged justly that the students of the university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/4/1886 | See Source »

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