Word: eras
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...salaries to coaches of Yale athletics should cease, and unless Yale can from her own resources, graduate and undergraduate, develop her teams without such artificial stimulants, so that she can reasonably compete with her rivals, it would be best to eliminate intercollegiate athletics altogether until the dawn of an era of reasonableness in such things...
...year 1816 does, however, mark an important epoch in the history of theological education in Cambridge and the beginning of a new era, for in that year the Divinity School was definitely distinguished from the College, though the Divinity Faculty was not formally organized until 1819. On February 3, 1816, a committee appointed by the corporation issued an appeal for subscriptions for the extension of the means of theological education in Cambridge. The letter states that the President of the University has officially declared that "neither the object nor the consequence, 'of enlarging the theological funds of the University...
...Professor Charles Homer Haskins, of the History Department; "Lectures on the Industrial Revolution," Dean Edward Francis Gay, of the Business School; "Poetic Art in Ballad and Epic," Professor Francis Barton Gummere, of Haverford; "Aristotle: Meteorology," Professor Francis Howard Fobes, of Union; and "Judaism at the Beginning of the Christian Era." George Foote Moore, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religions...
...Lyceum, in 1810, to the last issue of the Harvard Magazine in 1864--were literary magazines, each short-lived. With the appearance, on March 9, 1866, of the first number of the Collegian--a fortnightly "newspaper intended to represent the views and opinions of Harvard students"--began the present era of University journalism. The Collegian was outspoken and caustic in tone. It deplored the "little disposition manifested by the instructors to establish and confirm a friendship between the student and themselves"; it attacked with keen satire compulsory church attendance on Sunday and the system of compulsory chapel. After its third...
Though tennis is supposed to have entered this year into an era of importance without precedent in the University, prospects for the doubles tournament do not support this theory. Unless more teams swell the number of entries, now two, a competition which has been closely contested in previous years will become a phenomenal failure this spring...