Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students of Davidson "College," Charlotte, N. C., have if correctly reported, recently been indulging in some very curious freaks. We doubt if even Southern "chivalry" can explain these actions. The report reads: Students at Davidson College have of late been so riotous as to attract general attention. They take possession of Davidson College station as the trains stop, go through the cars singing ribald songs regardless of the presence of ladies, and parade the country round about so that women are afraid to be found abroad. This hostility seems to be especially directed against preachers, whom they compel...
...faculty in athletics is justifiable." On the secret ballot on the merits of the question the faculty were sustained by a vote of 35 to 21. Mr. A. G. Webster, '85, then opened the debate in the affirmative, claiming that the game of foot-ball had degenerated greatly of late, and to sustain his position quoted from a New York newspaper in its account of the Harvard-Yale game. He also declared it well known that the Harvard eleven had gone to Princeton, determined to disable a prominent player if necessary to win the game. Mr. J. H. McIntosh...
...placed at the end of the book. The work forms a valuable guide to the societies and athletics of our college and should be in the hands of every student. We cannot but regret however, that a book which contains so much useful information must necessarily appear so late in the year...
...holidays from three weeks to two. This conforms more to the present Harvard vacations. A gratifying increase of the library is noted. About 9000 volumes have been added during the past year, most of which were purchased, by means of a special gift, from the valuable library of the late Mr. Cooke of Providence. The whole number of books in the Yale library is given at 161, 000, about 50,000 less than the number in Gore Hall and 116,000 less than the whole Harvard collection, which includes the special libraries of the various departments...
...every means in their power to make the Royal Frederick-William University in Berlin the National University, and such encouragements have been offered to professors of other universities that the faculty of the Berlin university is probably the most representative of the educational system of Germany. Germany, of late years, has gradually assumed a position at the head of the world in all matters of education, and today her university and school system are looked upon as the best result of the experience and labor of the world's educators. So that testimony from Germany on any question of education...