Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...societies which is now being tried at Connell. It has been suggested to me by Dr. H. B. Adams, Professor of History in the Johns Hopkins University, to call your attention to an organization of our own, similar in purpose to that at Cornell, although not entirely so in form. Instead of a Mock House of Commons. The classic form of a "Literary Society" has been dragging along a precarious existence ever since the foundation of the university, but has been lamentably unsuccessful. Our new plan combines, we think, the advantages of the old system in having an official committee...
...freshmen commenced with over twenty candidates, who have been reduced to ten or a dozen of the most promising men. They row in fairly good form, considering their inexperience...
...University of Pennsylvania is indeed modest. We clip the following form the University Magazine...
...decisions are subject to the absolute veto of the president of the college, who acts as presiding officer at its meetings. Just here is a marked difference between the Senate, and our proposed conference committee. This committee is to have no executive power, but its report, in the form of a resolution, must be acted upon in the same way as the report of any faculty committee. So we see that in the one case, a body, with nominal executive power can have its decrees annulled by the will of one man, while in the other case, a committee, with...
...sure that I was not asleep. "O, that this were mine!" I whispered to myself. My companion heard. "And so are these your highest dreams of life?" he asked. "Listen, my friend," he continued. "He who dwells here is one of a class of men who regard themselves as forming the highest society in the land. But this man cares more for that old Aldine or that rare Plotinus yonder, than he cares for the outside world or for his own soul. The world is centered in his library. A few intimates there are to whom he lays bare...