Word: founds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Corcoran, of Washington, has given $50,000 to found professorships in History, Literature, and Ethics in the University of Virginia...
...must close, and, as I have said, I shall not be able to write to you again. I hope that it has given you as much pleasure to receive my letters as it has given me to write them; and I sincerely hope that you have not found them utterly worthless. One or two friends who have looked over my shoulder while I have been writing have found great fault with me, and have called me worldly and cynical and snobbish. They may be right. Perhaps I am. But I do not think that I am a bad fellow...
SOME objections have been raised among undergraduates to the new system of having examinations in the afternoon. On inquiry we have ascertained that it was the desire of the Faculty to devote not more than eighteen days to the Semiannuals, and that to fulfil this end it was found necessary to assign some examinations to the afternoon. It has been the endeavor of those who have had charge of the schedule to arrange the examinations so that no person should have two on the same day, and they have succeeded entirely, except as regards such students as are making...
...year, and even to the preparatory schools, were they what they should be. In Ethics they noticed "an appearance of slightness and vagueness which is perhaps inseparable from the mental condition of many of the young men." Forensics they discovered to be only another name for themes, and they found (what we had not realized) increasing interest in theme-writing. They commend the plan of requiring each theme to be entirely rewritten, and can see no reason why themes should not be required of Freshmen and Seniors. They think that in Political Economy the field should be enlarged...
...brains, no matter what their circumstances may be. What is done for a man here? He may take even a summa cum laude, and receive no more reward from the University than the little distinction conferred by those three words. There is no fault to be found that this is so, but the cause of failure must be understood before the remedy for it can be applied...