Word: epochal
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...coming anniversary celebration will mark an epoch in the history of the college. The celebration of fifty years ago marked the beginning of great changes in the constitution of Harvard, which only with this year have reached their full development. Now at last the college has been transformed. And I hope it is not with idle pride that we now believe it to be the most liberal in its advantages, the most complete, the best American university. And yet the change is not so great as is often thought. In my day even we already had the elective system...
...stake, and others resort to more hilarious performances. At Vassar the middle of the sophomore year closes the study of trigonometry and is also the end of the prescribed course, and the students thereafter are permitted to elect what branches they will pursue. It is therefore an important epoch in college life, and the "Trig Ceremonies" are always made the occasion of a general celebration by the sophomores, who invite the freshmen to attend and take warning by their experience. The usual chief event is a play, more or less appropriate to the occasion...
...that delivered under the auspices of the Historical Society, during the winter of 1883-84, on the campaigns and battles of the Rebellion. Great as was the interest then manifested in this subject, we feel that there exists to-day even a stronger desire for information concerning this important epoch of our history. Many causes have recently been brought to bear which tend directly towards an awakening of this spirit of inquiry. The deaths of Generals Grant and McClellan have served to bring to memory many half-forgotten events of the war period. The series of war papers...
...Sibley and Dr. Elisha Mulford. The latter, a professor in the Cambridge Theological Seminary, is known to all who are interested in the economic literature of the United States, as the author of the "Nation." This book, which appeared in war times, is regarded by many as marking an epoch in our economic study. Others are more familiar with Dr. Mulford's "Republic of God," a religious work of much merit. Although the Theological Seminary is not a part of our own university, yet its proximity has given rise to a feeling of kindly interest, which expresses itself at this...
Cornell's new president, Charles Kendall Adams, in his inaugural on Thursday, referred to President Eliot's administration as "entitled to the distinction of forming a great epoch in the development of higher education in America." This praise, so merited, is to an equal degree significant. It shows that President Eliot's views are gaining ground in colleges other than Harvard. The reaction which was, perhaps, only hastened by our president, is genuine and not ill-timed...