Word: ills
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made in our issue of yesterday of a new university with a princely endowment to be founded in Massachusetts. We certainly would not say a word to discourage the use of wealth for the spreading abroad of education in any part of the world whatsoever. Such affection would ill befit us above all others, since we enjoy the highest of such advantages for learning. But we think more discretion might be observed in the manner of employing such an amount of money. If this million and a half had been given to some of the struggling universities in the West...
...uncommon nuisance, which has been commented on by both instructors and students, is the exceedingly ill-bred habit which many men have of whistling in the entries of Sever Hall during recitation time. Many classes are dismissed before the rest disperse, and men who have other recitations in Sever the next hour wander up and down the sounding corridors, whiling away the time by whistling and talking. This is not only a piece of great ill-breeding, but it is a nuisance to both instructors and students; it is impossible for the former to lecture, or the latter to listen...
There are three dangers into which young students of archaeology are apt to fall and they consist in (1) a misconception of what constitutes thoroughness of research; (2) the detrimental predominance of the collector's frame of mind, and lastly the ill-judged and premarure introduction of allied studies into archaeology. People think it necessary to go back into the prehistoric development of Greek social life and art when they begin to teach archaeology. This would be more logical if the science were a more firmly established one. As it is, the true method of research seems...
Among the passengers on the ill-fated Modoc train which collided with a freight train a few days ago were two Harvard students, members of the class of '88. All the baggage which they had brought on was destroyed...
...which aspire to some degree of literary excellence. It must be known to our contemporary that a Press Association is already in existence between the three daily publications of Yale, Princeton and Harvard. Therefore, in view of the facts as we regard them, the Tuftonian's suggestion is somewhat ill-timed...