Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gibson, the champion short distance runner of the world, says that he has used cinder tracks all over Great Britain and the United States, but has never seen as fine a one as that in the athletic grounds of the University of Pennsylvania...
...celebration just over is the lasting influence of its inspiration, in giving the students at once a clear conception of the real meaning of college work. There is not a man who has not been lifted up above the drudgery of every-day work and been shown the true great meaning of the whole in its relation with the outside world. We all feel an inspiration to attack the work with new vigor, when we know that such men as were on the stage in Sanders on Monday have all been in our places and sympathize with us. If Lowell...
...considered as an upstart for the men of the middle ages believed that Germany had the empire, Italy the prince and France the schools. What right had England to set up a university? The struggle in 1265 when Simon de Mont Fort established the House of Commons, created a great excitement at Oxford, and the influence wielded by the students was great. The right of clergy which it is well known existed in the middle ages has not yet died out, but only last year an undergraduate was dismissed from judicial jurisdiction because he pleaded that only the Vice Chancellor...
...first German university was that of Prague. When the revolution which was inaugurated by John Huss reached Prague a great contest took place. The opponents of the reformer were beaten, and leaving the university they were scattered through the German states and founded the seats of learning at Heildelberg, Berlin, Vienna etc. Thus Germany has a host of universities, typical of the government of that country, France had Paris and everything was centralized there. England had Oxford and Cambridge believing that a generous rivalry was much to be desired...
...audience remained seated and Professor Norton knowing the evident wish of all present again ascended the stage and made a short speech of thanks to Dr. Creighton. "It is a great pleasure," he said, for the oldest of American Universities to be connected as Dr. Creighton has shown us with the oldest of the universities of England and the world. It gives an added dignity to our short years to feel that they are thus connected with the universities to which civilization owes so much. It is a pleasure to know that English blood flows in the veins of those...