Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the overseers of Harvard University at their meeting on Wednesday will strike a great number of the recent graduates as an unfortunate retrograde movement. During the twenty years, more or less, in which President Eliot has occupied his position, there has been steady progress in the direction of placing greater reliance on the individual student and less upon a vexatious code of rules and penalties...
...change form the narrow atmosphere and petty restrictions of a school in which the result is to extract from the pupil a fixed amount of work and exact from him a strict obedience to a body of minute regulations, to the broad life of a true university, in which great privileges are offered to those who will avail themselves of them, while in return each student is required to conform himself to such regulations only as are necessary for the maintenance of order and of honor and to satisfy his instructors that he is making a reasonable...
...dominates the city, and is the most prominent feature in every picture. Near this is the Uffizzi palace with its famous picture gallery. Here are many art treasures, including the Venus di Medici, found in the villa of Hadrian at Rome, the statue of Niobe, and numerous others. The great glory of Florence is the Duomo, or cathedral, built of black and white marble, with a tower, said to be the handsomest in the world. The baptistry of this church contains a number of famous bronze doors, one pair of which occupied the artist for twenty years...
...contemptibly mean for any one to question their right to what they ask. The excuse crew men offer for the position they have taken is that every cent that can be obtained is needed by the crew. It is true enough that the crew will need a great deal of money, but it does not signify that on this account it should invade the obvious rights of the football team, and trample on common decency for the sake of getting the money. There are over three hundred men in the freshman class; if from this number of men enough money...
...following clipping, after Professor Norton's lecture on Tuesday evening, may be interesting, and will give an idea of what is being done in the way of excavation by the Americans in Greece. Lack of funds, it will be seen, is the great drawback to greater and more systematic work. It is to be hoped that the money now being collected in New York will soon be at the disposal of the proper authorities. Then can we look forward to the accomplishment of good work by American archaeologists...