Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question of employing professional experts as teachers or "coaches" in college athletic sports has been hotly discussed of late in the colleges of Harvard, Yale and Princeton; and the rule, as applicable to base-ball, has been carried to the extreme of prohibiting college nines from playing matches with professional teams hereafter, Harvard inaugurating the movement in opposition to professionalism in the college sporting arena. Yale objects to having this rule observed, and Princeton has not yet endorsed it; but all the other colleges have joined Harvard in their opposition to playing baseball with professional teams. We cannot perceive...
Papers have been found among the literary collections of the late Herr Lasker, which are expected to give the much desired information on obscure points in the Constitutional History of Germany. Many of these manuscripts are in an unfinished condition...
...Century magazine at present is Mr. Robert Grant, '73. Mr. Grant is best known as the author of "Little Tin Gods-on-wheels; or, Society in our Modern Athens," which first appeared in the Lampoon. This little book, which has probably been read by all Harvard men, of late years, has met with remarkable success, due no doubt very much to the illustrations by Mr. Atwood as well as to the "trilogy" itself. Almost nine thousand copies of the book have been sold and the demand still continues. It is a strange fact that the book met its largest sale...
...English. Brasenose gets its peculiar name from the fact that one of its halls stands on the site of an old brasen-hus or brewery of Alfred the Great's palace, and although the large brass nose fixed over the gateway is picturesque it was added without doubt in late times to account for the name...
General G. W.C. Lee is the president of this famous university. It was founded by Gen. Washington. Gen. Robert E. Lee became its president soon after the late war, and on his death was succeeded by his son, the president incumbent. It is a noble institution. Young men by the hundred from all parts of the country have graduated from it. Its alumni embrace a catalogue of distinguished men some of whom are prominent today in the education of a Northern lady a fine library building has been erected which accommodates 75,000 volumes. The university chapel is a place...