Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...method of instruction in Greek at Johns Hopkins University is thus commented on in a late number of the N. Y. Post: "The rooms are of a good size, well lighted and handsomely furnished. The cocoa matting of the average college class room is replaced by Brussels carpets; and cane-bottomed chairs are substituted for hard wooden seats. All the works in the university on philology are collected together in this one building. The student then has everything at his elbow. In the seminary library there are one thousand volumes, and in Professor Gildersleeve's study at least two thousand...
...benefit that could be derived from the association, there can be no doubt, provided it be organized on the proper basis, and be animated with a sufficiently earnest and definite purpose. Of late years there has been observed a marked tendency toward a better understanding and mutual co-operation in our colleges, both between instructors and students. The New England College Association has greatly promoted this spirit. In other ways our Inter-Collegiate Ball and Boating Associations have had the same tendency. But probably none of these would have a better effect in this way than an inter-collegiate press...
...base ball nine have begun practising in the gymnasium. Keef, late of the Troys, is coaching them, and the prospects of a good nine for another year are very encouraging. - [Amherst Student...
...late six-days walk the receipts were $26.763, and the expenditures, $21,443.53. Fitzgerald received $3649.24; Noremac, $1149.62; Herty, $599.76; Hughes, $99.89. Hughes refused to take this amount...
...Italian opera season will begin at the Boston Theatre late in December or early in January, and will continue for two weeks. The troupe will be the same as Mr. Mapleson is now presenting at the Academy of Music in New York, Mme. Patti being one of the force...