Word: ending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...twenty years the Hasty Pudding Club had the use of the upper rooms in the north end of the building for its library and meetings, and the Natural History Society had also its room there for some time...
...unless more pupils present themselves during this week he will be obliged to leave Cambridge. The price of each lesson is only about 25 cents, and it is earnestly hoped that, if there are men in college who wish to take fencing lessons, they will present themselves before the end of this week...
...With the end of the football season, Yale naturally looks forward to the spring and weighs the chances for the success of her crew and nine. The crew bids fair to be the equal of last year's eight, and Yale can look forward to the Yale-Harvard and Yale-Pennsylvania races with reasonable hopes of success. In the matter of the nine, the college is somewhat downhearted. Stagg, it is said, has absolutely refused to play next season. But Yale has a way of persuading delinquents in athletic matters which seldom fails of success, and it seems scarcely possible...
...will belong to the undergraduate department which will have no special faculty. All the courses will be conducted by instructors, while the professors will lecture in university courses only. The university faculty of arts will then begin with the senior year, and will last for three years, at the end of each of which the student will get his B. A., A, M. and Ph. D. The arts faculty will thus be co-ordinate with the Law, Mines and Political Science faculties, and if this scheme is carried out and the proposed faculty of Philology, Philosophy and Fine Arts established...
...most importance to the college is the elaborate editorial filling several pages near the end of the number. Its aim is to stimulate men to become more than mere plodders or idlers along the intellectual highway; to show the vast superiority of those students who. putting aside the petty spirit which drives men to work for marks or examinations alone, adopt instead an ultimate idea of true and broad culture. An abuse too prevalent at Harvard-the nursing system of private tutors-is treated with the open and unqualified contempt it deserves. If the Monthly continues thus ably to discuss...