Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students of the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania are trying to form an eight-oared crew...
...visitors fewer, and the pictures in the magazines, we are told, are about all the Cantabs have to talk about. As for music, this correspondent says the real appreciative lover of music doesn't abound there, and the occasional Symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre are attended only for form's sake. It's lucky for this correspondent that hazing has gone by in Cambridge; otherwise Pericles and Aspasia would take him out and hold him under a pump nozzle." - Boston Herald...
This game has never lost its popularity; it is still a part of all the British and American army and navy games, and, in its new form, the most eagerly awaited event on the programme of a college athletic meeting...
...centennial anniversary of the incorporation of Columbia College approaches, energetic preparations are being made by the authorities of the college in order that the occasion may be observed with due form and ceremony. The history of Columbia is only a repetition of the later years of Harvard and of Yale, and shows the same improvement and growth. Although still known as a "college," the excellent schools of law, engineering, and medicine which Columbia possesses will soon compel her title to be changed to "university," a name to which it certainly has an undoubted right. Therefore in view of the gratifying...
...very nearly three; and the great elective system, broadening, expanding and enlightening the minds and purposes has been brought to a state of perfection which Yale and Princeton must follow, or be worse distanced than now. Religion is no longer forced upon the students, who are left to form their religious convictions with mature thought, and not to imbibe early in life a feeling of hostility and contempt for all religion. Perhaps it is to be deplored that Harvard's proximity to Boston tends to inculcate in young minds the dilletate spirit which pervades the Athens of America. Take...