Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college hazings and escapades of all sorts. This phenomenon seems inexplicable; but we regard it as nothing more than a reaction from the inevitable tendency of which we have spoken. The movement is undeniable; it has of course manifested itself first at the great centres of student-life - the larger universities of the country; but it is already spreading among the rural colleges. As the satire runs in the daily press, "A student is now regarded just like a human being, and is supposed to have the sensations and emotions of a man." Another result, or rather evidence of this...
Contrary to the general impression, the number trying for the Boylston prizes this year is much larger than usual...
...OEdipus Tyrannus." The subject is one specially interesting to students at Harvard, and Professor Packard handled his text in a manner quite acceptable to his audience. Taking the object of this course of lectures into account, it is a matter of surprise that there was not a larger audience present...
...colleges must contribute. This will be applied to various uses, including a provision for pensions for professors. Buildings, tutors and scholarships are to be provided for students unattached to any of the colleges. Ordinary salaries of professors are to be pound900, of some only pound400. Those receiving the larger sum are required to give at least forty-two lectures a year, and to set examinations, etc. The function of the professors is proclaimed to be teaching rather than research. Scholarships are to be obtained as before by competition; but a special fund is to be created for poor students. "These...
...younger instructors being offered better salaries at other institutions. Of course the natural pride an instructor feels in being connected with such a university as Harvard, and the hope of future promotion, may cause him to refuse a position at some other institution where he is to get a larger salary. But when a man who is getting $2500 a year here is offered $5000 some place else, knowing that he can never get that amount here, he feels that he owes a duty to himself, and that "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush...