Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Eastern Tennessee Wesleyan University, of Athens, Tenn., has changed its name to the "Grant Memorial University," as the General was first to subscribe toward its foundation. There are now about two hundred and fifty enrolled in the University. - Yale News...
...peculiar feature of the morning prayers was the public confession from delinquent students which the President was accustomed to hear directly after the service. Discipline was then administered according to the nature of the offence. It consisted of degradation, admonition, or expulsion. Corporal punishment was given up as a general thing before...
...Cambridge there is at some colleges, a longer term allowed before a man must go in for the first of the three university examinations, but otherwise the general tenor of the system is similar. Fear of encroaching too much on your space prevents me from entering into many details which might be of interest, especially as to the papers set at the various examinations, of which I regularly receive copies...
There are two general ways in which the expenditure here may be lessened; first, by lowering the price of board; second, by making smaller charge for tuition. In the present management of Memorial Hall, the board seems to have reached the lowest price, consistent with furnishing a tolerable quality of food. Of course, as Harvard is in a city she cannot compete with country colleges by offering cheap board...
Municipal Law consists of lectures on the origin, history and general principles of the Common Law based on the treatises of Robinson and others...