Word: ill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other regulations are no less arbitrary than the one above. The rectors or presidents of the universities are to be appointed by the Minister of Police. As the rector's authority is superior to that of the faculty, it will be seen what an immense power for good or ill this right of appointment places in the Minister's hands. If he fills the office with his parasites and henchmen, he destroys the influence of the universities at a blow...
...Wilder is probably the oldest undergraduate in the world. He entered the University of Vermont with the class of '32, but was compelled to leave on account of ill health. He has recently entered '85 in that institution, and hopes to take his degree next June.-[Yale News...
Harvard can ill afford to abandon a game the esthetic possibilities of which are so great as those of foot ball. If the Harvard Athletic Committee will but think of the pleasing combinations of color and the artistic roupangs possible in a game of foot ball, and instead of shuddering at it as a "brutal prize fight," consider it in the light of a "study in orange and black," or a "symphony in blue and crimson," we feel confident that they will withdraw their objections and let it live.-[Courant...
...University, Ill...
...bear three books, argent, upon a field, rules, the two upper volumes being separated from the lower by a chevronel, argent But, alas for our time-honored crimson, the shield upon the present seal flaunts before us a field, azure, upon which the three venerable duodecimo volumes seem strangely ill at ease...