Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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However this may be, it touches the honor of every man in the University to come forward now and by subscriptions pay off the amount outstanding, so that this year's management may start with a squared account. We trust that we shall hear that the sum needed will be paid off in the course of a very few weeks. But then a fresh and healthier start must be made...
Oberlin boasts of being the first college that admitted women on equal terms with men, but to the University of Wisconsin belongs the honor of having graduated a larger number of women than any other co-educational institution.-Pennsylvanian...
...accomplish this, the most intense energy is necessary; every exertion must be put forth if we intend to carry out our New Year resolutions. And with the coming of the New Year we realize that in a few months, eighty-eight, a class which has ever been an honor to Harvard College, goes out and leaves behind a gap which will be hard to fill. We shall miss her sorely. She has made a noble record and we shall have to strain every nerve to fill the holes left in our ranks...
...have been as follows: First, philosophy (logic and physics, two hours; ethics and politics, two hours; disputations, six hours); altogether ten hours a week. Greek came next, occupying, with New Testament Greek, seven hours. Rhetoric (the writing and speaking of the mother-tongue) enjoyed the third place of honor, employing six hours. Oriental languages held the fourth place, occupying five hours a week. Mathematics stood next in order, with two hours. The catechism and "common-places" were equally favored with an allowance of one hour. History and botany were put on half allowance, each with one hour a week...
...land rests the national endowment of the University of Michigan. The institution of a department of history and English literature, in 1855, at the University of Michigan was one of the first academic recognition's of history in this country. At this time Harvard stood alone in the honor of a distinctly endowed historical professorship. Yale bad no historical professorship until 1865. Columbia College called Dr. Francis Lieber to its new professorship of Historical and Political Science in 1857, the year after Dr. Haven's first retirement from academic life. During the first of his two years at the University...