Word: england
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grandfathers were undergraduates it was a well-night insolvable problem in the administration of our colleges how to provide a wholesome outlet for the surplus energy of the vigorous young student. In Europe today the student whiles away his idle hours in drinking and duelling bouts, while even in England riots between town and gown are frequent occurrences. The overflow of student vigor in America has formerly taken the form of such college pranks as ragging of signs, gate lifting, and hazing. Those disorders have now practically disappeared from American college life, and the cause of their disappearance...
...remodelled and enlarged Harvard Club of New York was formally opened last week. Many alumni including President Eliot, Mr. Charles S. Fairchild '63, former Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. Joseph H. Choate '52, former ambassador to England, were present. The Columbia, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Yale, and Cornell clubs were represented by their respective presidents or secretaries, as were the Harvard clubs from other cities. Mr. Austin G. Fox, president of the Club, presided. President Eliot, Mr. Choate, Mr. Edmund Wetmore '60, and Major Henry L. Higginson h. '82 delivered informal addresses...
...England under the Tudors," A. D. Innes...
Reduced rates of a fare and one-third, on the certificate plan, have been secured from the Trunk Line Association, the New England Passenger Association. The Central Passenger Association and the Eastern Canadian Passenger Association. In applying for certificates from ticket agents, mention the Archaelogical Institute of America instead of the American Folk-Lore Society. In consulting time tables it should be remembered that East Ithaca is the Ithaca station of the Elmira and Cortland branch of the Le high Valley Railroad. Cars meet all trains at this station, and all cars pass the hotels...
Among the recent acquisitions by the Gore Hall Library are the "Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton," and the "The Witness to the Influence of Christ," the William Belden Noble lectures delivered last year by the Right Reverend William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon, England...