Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will of the late J. J. Cooke of Providence, R. I., bequeaths $5000 each to Harvard and nine other colleges, provided that the money is used in purchasing books at the coming sale of the testator's library in New York. The library is particularly rich in various classics...
Plagiarism is rampant. The Columbia Spectator, in its last issue, in a scene of a street Arab pursuing a fashionable, copies an old Punch joke of Charles Keene's, published several years ago. Harper's Bazar also lacks originality and copies a late joke from the Lampoon, entitled "Etiquette - 'But I can't let ye up stairs till ye've put yer name in the dish,'" with a drawing almost facsimile of the original, without, it is needless to add, due credit being given. All of which affords interesting reflections upon the degeneracy of public morals...
...Yale News is the latest convert to the "Harvard idea" in the matter of college athletics. It states very well the theory that has so often been expressed at Harvard of late, when it says: "The trouble with college athletics is not that they occupy too much of the attention of the students, but that they are not for the many. That the majority of college men are content to take their exercise by proxy - in reading and talking about the work done by the nine and crew rather than in doing a reasonable amount for themselves...
...HARVARD HERALD: As the proposed "Elevated Railway" has at present progressed no further than a small petition, and is still one of the blessed things of the hereafter, we think some relief ought to be afforded by the "Cambridge Railroad Company" in regard to the number of cars used late in the evening...
...discussion of the higher education of women has been a prominent feature in the New York papers of late, and an exhaustive article appears in the Woman's Journal on the subject, of which the following is a brief summary: The article says that in Belgium the question of admitting women to the universities was brought up in 1875, but not until 1881 was the plan adopted at Brussels and Liege. At present there are women studying at both these places. France not only allows women to attend the lectures at most of her colleges, but graduates are permitted...