Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...election of members of the board and in the choice of the president and tutors, which continued even after later modifications of the charter. The State retained an unfavorable jurisdiction over the affairs of the college, approving the election and voting the salaries of president and professors as late as 1786. Every wave of public opinion that affected the legislators influenced the destinies of the college. In the contests of rival factions, salaries and needed appropriations were withheld, often occasioning great inconvenience and suffering. Obnoxious opinions of the president and faculty on political subjects often invoked investigation and rebuke...
...abolition of what has lately come to seem to many an unfortunate tendency towards undue specialization in our athletics may very possibly be one of the more important results of President Eliot's recent movement towards the reform of college athletics. Indeed, this may fairly be conjectured to be one of the chief aims of the movement. That college sports of late years have arisen to so high a degree of excellence and have developed teams, as well as individual athletes, of such exceptionally fine records, is surely a matter of congratulation to everybody. But that, at the same time...
...valuable library of the late Geo. P. Marsh, American minister to Italy, containing 12,000 volumes, has been purchased by Mr. F. Billings and given to the University of Vermont...
...Sargent, late of Harvard, has entered upon his duties at the Madison Square Theatre, where he is dramatic director...
...bestowed upon those who are sick. A friend, since the beginning of this term, was confined to his room by one of those childish diseases which do not impair the patient's appetite. Our friend did not grumble very much when his meals were brought from Memorial several hours late or stone cold, but he did decidedly object to going without them, which was often the case. The waiter, when remonstrated with, replied that he could not come over, being "on duty," and would be fined fifty cents for not being at his post. It was not exactly his fault...