Word: establish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent conference we took occasion to criticise some portions of President Eliot's annual report treating of college athletics as vague and non-committal, and indeed those passages taken by themselves still seem to us non-committal and vague. The result of this conference however may be taken to establish a definite idea of what the faculty's peculiar definition of "professional" is in the first place, and how clean sweeping is its prohibition of "professionalism" in the second place. President Eliot's report contains a sweeping condemnation of the practice of employing all trainers whatever; "They are in favor...
...correspondent of the New Orleans Times Democrat writes as follows of the gift of Paul Tulane to establish a university in the South, about which of late so much has been said: Stopping at Princeton for a day, by request of the venerable Paul Tulane, I had the pleasure of a long conversation with him about the university he desires to establish in New Orleans...
...Jeffersons, Calhouns, Clays! We need such men in the South! We need them in Louisiana above all! And we have the boys there to become such men, only they lack the educational resources. The common school system of the State is defective. When I made my first donations towards establishing the university I was not aware the property so given would be taxed. Such treatment of property given for such purposes is unheard of in the North. Look at Princeton College! It has had millions of dollars given to it, to be managed by its officers and trustees. The state...
...regretted that the HERALD-CRIMSON has not received the literary support from the sophomore and freshman classes which is its due. Some years ago it became possible to establish a daily paper in the college, and since then, such has been its success and usefulness, that the college takes a great interest in anything that concerns its welfare. During the last two months the paper has been seriously weakened by the severe sickness of several members of the board of editors, which has compelled them to leave college either temporarily or permanently. To fill the gap thus caused...
...Charles Francis Adams, Jr., in regard to the studying of Greek being an obstacle in the way of success of the Adams family for four generations, and expresses himself as of the opinion that the only stumbling block in the way of that family has been its failure to establish a line of hereditary monarchs...