Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that it had worked at all. Speaking of the endowment, he said that the college which has any life in it will always be wanting something. The relief which Bowdoin has received has come largely from outside, especially in the Stone and Winkley Professorships, founded by the late Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Malden, and Mr. Henry Winkley, of Philadelphia. Nothing was known of Mr. Winkley before he made this gift. One day, Prof. Packard said, he saw a gentleman looking about the grounds. He asked him if he would like to look at the buildings. He said he should...
...prevent the repetition of such playing in another year. But the ill-advised action of the athletic committee last fall made it a matter of honor for the students to continue the game through the season. For my part, I can see no excesses to which the athletes of late years have gone that would not have regulated themselves without the interference of the faculty. Another objection we have to these resolutions, a very important objection, even if we concede the expediency of any interference, is that they were passed without any consultation whatever with the students. In so important...
...late years there has been a strong tendency among our instructors to give as much aid to the men in their courses as possible, both by providing them with references for outside reading, and by giving information as to the manner in which their particular courses are to be conducted. In consequence the relations between the students and their instructors have become much more pleasant than they were under the old regime, when the undergraduates had a feeling that their instructors were trying to force them to "make bricks without straw," by giving examinations apparently destined to find out what...
...shall be to publish to the members from time to time all information about the conduct of the business of the association that will interest them and enlighten them upon the spirit and true workings of its affairs. The policy of the corporation of the college has been of late to throw the association as much as possible into the hands of the students, and it is to be hoped that the committee just mentioned will succeed in awakening a more active interest in the members, a thing which is much needed in order to insure the best performance...
Seniors who have made a specialty of Greek are now beginning to prepare for the Foster premium, which is derived from a fund of $3,000, given to the university a few years ago by the late Hon. Lafayette S. Foster. Contestants this year will be examined on the "Oration on the Crown." As the premium is the largest one which is offered during the course, the rivalry is sharp...