Word: ill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wendell, '83, is travelling in India with the Rev. Phillips Brooks. It is reported that Mr. Wendell is seriously ill...
...team would be almost a necessity. In an historical light, also, this collection is very interesting. There are coins struck in honor of Sulla, of Brutus and of Pompey. One of the copper coins contains the liead of Gordianus Africanus II., who reigned forty days. Another shows the ill-fated features of a sixty-six-day emperor. Had these monarchs been as slow in securing their counterfeit presentments as a Harvard senior of today is, the collection would be poorer by several brave heads. Another larger but more miscellaneous numismatic collection consist of several hundred English, French, Spanish, East Indian...
...institution of a new assistant professorship in the English department, again suggests the ill-considered treatment of the department of political economy. In Political Economy, a subject of live interest and great popularity, it is reported that the faculty expect to reduce the working force, while the English department, where the instruction, as far as the prescribed courses are concerned, has been notoriously weak, is to have a new office created for it, which will merely perpetuate an old system that has met with nothing but condemnation. The action even lacks the excuse that the appointment is necessary to obtain...
...conflict with that of other college officers where the experiment has been made. It seems to be established beyond reasonable question that, under suitable regulations, young men and young women may pursue their studies at the same institution without peril to their morals or any other ill effect, but with decided advantage in all respects...
...recent discussion in the Nation, carried on also to some extent in the outside press, it cannot be said that on either side it was particularly edifying. The question at issue seems hardly to have been touched upon at all with much seriousness. Indiscreetness, painful bad taste and ill-disguised intolerance would seem to have been the chief characteristies of the several articles discussing the question. Of the amenity and sweet reasonableness, such as we should hope to see in such a debate, there was apparently none. In view of this it can hardly be said that further discussion...