Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this Yale prodigy who has just presented himself for athletic honors is Brooks, who covered the hundred yards in 10 1-5 seconds, and the two hundred and twenty yards in 22 5/8 seconds. Unfortunately for us, the condition of Mr. Wendell's ankle prevented him from making fast time, but we still have great confidence in our champion, and hope sometime to see him matched against Yale's "fastest in the country." The race will be close at all events...
...noted with dismay the gradual decay of the ancient safeguards which stringent discipline was supposed to throw about the educational pathway of the young and rising generation," moralizes the Times. "The moral of college government is greatly relaxed, and our venerable eleemosynary and other institutions of learning are fast becoming the theatres of disorder and excess." This paper then makes the rather remarkable statement that "Harvard, Yale and others of our older colleges are compelled to rely upon the police and the courts to aid in maintaining order." It goes on to state that "the list of shocking disorders might...
...Journal of Education thinks that "Harvard is fast approaching the position of co-education. The strongest arguments against co-education can be made with reference to the medical department of a college, and the recent close vote on this question is a clear indication that the division wall between the sexes in education will soon be broken down at 'old Harvard...
...pleasant to see that the spirit of fierce rivalry that once prevailed among many of the colleges of this country is fast dying out, and is giving way to a more just spirit of courtesy and friendly emulation. The obliteration of all differences of method is an end not at all to be desired, but the establishment of a firmer basis of agreement among all rival colleges cannot but result in good. There are one or two outcomes of the ordinary growth and experience of college faculties towards which all are tending; and one of these is the elective system...
...fast express train between New York and Boston, leaving New York at 4.30 P. M., was fired upon at New Haven last evening...