Word: established
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...another column we publish a communication urging the establishment of a chair of journalism at Harvard. Each succeeding year witnesses the enlargement of the curriculum by the new courses in modern languages, science and philosophy, but not a step has yet been made to establish a course whose need is greatly felt. The fear either of the total failure, or but partial success, of a course in journalism is what deters the faculty from taking the initiative, and unfortunately there is no precedent at other colleges by which it is easy to judge the benefit of such a course. Lately...
...this dinner, the Andover men in college will establish a precedent which we hope will be followed by the representatives here in college of all the other large preparatory schools Men who have come from Phillips Exeter, in particular, ought to be doing something to further the interests of Harvard in their academy. For a long time Exeter was the great feeding school of Harvard, but during the past few years the Exeter delegation has decreased in number to a great extent and simply because the Exeter men in other colleges have offered to their hesitating brethren what seemed...
...class of '75 has decided to establish a new chair of political economy at Yale, at which protectionist theories alone shall be taught...
...late George Peabody left a sum of $3,500,000 for the promotion of popular education in the South. The most fruitful result of this generous gift is the Peabody Normal College, at Nashville, Tenn. As early as 1873 the trustees of the Peabody fund decided to establish a normal college in the South. Application was made to the Tennessee Legislature to charter such an institution, the trustees promising to contribute liberally to its support. In 1875 the bill was passed and in December of the same year the college opened with Dr. E. S. Stearns as President...
...that is to see that the spectators do not crowd on the track, in their eagerness to get the best view of the races, and prove an annoyance to the contestants. In years past, complaint has always been made on this score, and it is now certainly time to establish a new order of things whereby the spectators may be able to see all that is going on and still be kept back in the seats where they belong...