Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examinations of Columbia to such properly qualified women as may present themselves. The committee of the board reported a set of resolutions, in which it was not deemed advisable for the interests of Columbia that women should be admitted to her lecture rooms, but recommending that some separate form of instruction, with examinations and granting of certificates, be instituted for such women as may desire it. Coeducation has never had a worse chance of being established here than at present...
...sanction this, with the proviso that women would be admitted when a special department was made ready for them. The secretary of the faculty of arts, Professor Jackson, delivered an elaborate argument against co-education, covering all the points very fully It has since been published in pamphlet form for distribution. The students of the university are almost unanimously opposed to co-education. At a meeting of the trustees, a committee report was presented setting forth a plan for the education of women, by which they will receive the same course of instruction as the male students...
...form a disinterested opinion on the abstract question of co-education, it need hardly be said, is a very difficult matter. Indeed it can almost be said that such an opinion is impossible. Co-education is as much a question of distinct practical conditions and local influences as it is one of theoretical utility. Testimony that can be gathered from all quarters is so conflicting in character that it is next to impossible to secure any concensus of opinions which might decide...
...very distinct "call" for Harvard to undertake it cannot be denied. The establishment of the annex in the near future as a constituent part of the university with a suitable endowment, seems more than probable. Thus it is that it well behooves every student and graduate of Harvard to form as well as he can his opinion as to the advisability, not of co-education in general, but of co-education at Harvard. It is a reassuring thought that Harvard's policy, while it has always been progressive, has been at the same time wisely conservative...
...despair. "You haven't got any tobacco 'round you?" he queried, in a pathetic tone. "No," was the reply; "I don't use it." "Don't use it?" exclaimed the ranger, starting back in surprise, "don't use it?" "No, never." "Don't you use it in no form whatever?" "No, I don't." "Well, then," returned the man, eying Mr. H. with a suspicious look, "there's one thing; I wouldn't trust you nigh my whiskey bottle...