Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contestants in the late winter meetings at Yale was a one-legged man. He made a good record in the fence-vault...
This statement, when taken in connection with the late action of the faculty, makes clear beyond doubt what is intended by such action. The chairman of the first committee of Overseers, Joseph Story, contemplated changes in the college curriculum as early as 1825. The growth toward a more free election of studies has steadily progressed since then. And the near future will see the course of study purely elective. The present stand of the faculty has thus been necessarily forced on them by the gradual development of an elective system inaugurated by the first board of overseers...
...principal source of revenue, next to the income on property, was that for instruction which amounted to $224,588.28. The principal gifts were $80,556,72 from the estate of the late Henry T. Morgan of New York; $100,000 and accrued interest from the estate of the late Eben Wright, and $29,939.33 from the estate of the late Henry Harris...
...sophomore year. From this point on, 20 pages are devoted to a sketch of the changes which have taken place in the college curriculum since 1823. From this it appears that the development of the elective system has been slowly going on ever since that remote period, though of late years greater strides have been taken toward the completion of the plan, as is shown by the fact that in 1871, only 14 years ago, the number of hours of elective work per week was but 168, as against 382 hours of electives, from which students are now allowed...
John C. Phillips, a nephew of the late Wendell Phillips, died in Boston on Sunday, of heart disease. He was a Harvard graduate of '58. Among his bequests was a gift of $25,000 to Phillips Andover Academy...