Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculties have no right of interference in athletics as we have already said is quite untenable. This opinion is also expressed by the Post. "But there is a wide difference," it continues, "between the exercise in each college of a general supervisory power over sports, and the attempt to establish an inter-collegiate code, as a glance at the resolutions themselves will show. They bring out very distinctly, the moment we examine them in detail, the fact that there is so great a dissimilarity, first, in the circumstances of the colleges, and second, in the character of the sports themselves...
...Pennsylvania fellows who presumed to challenge them so boastfully. It was funny-funny enough to convulse more sober people even than the college crews are composed of. But now that the laugh is over, is it not about time for Harvard, Yale and Columbia to beat Pennsylvania and so establish their right to laugh? It might turn out to be the old story of the jovial Pat who was glad he had his laugh before he got over the fence to try the funny experiment of running the bull's nose into the ground. [Brunonian...
Yale is trying hard to establish an illustrated paper which shall rival the Lampoon. Yet, although their efforts may eventually prove successful, the project meets with much opposition. This shows the small influence which the Yale Art School has had upon the mass of students. Although it is deemed of enough importance to be established as a separate department, it has really exerted less influence than our courses in Fine Arts under Professors Norton and Moore. The influence of these courses upon the Lampoon has been considerable,-some of the men who have studied in the regular courses making...
...women's college which it is proposed to establish at Baltimore is to be a strictly Methodist institution...
...that it should be religious, not to say sectarian; a third reason was the inevitable increase of a citizen's burdens as a bachelor for the luxury of a college education of the children of his wealthy neighbor. One of the motives that had led the people to establish schools for higher education is the conviction that by so doing primary instruction is better secured. The higher education gave the tone and determined the character of the lower. The elementary schools in Germany were the best in the world, for the reason that they were the open doors...