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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feel that few persons are aware of the rapid strides which have been taken at Harvard of late years towards the complete and perfect study of Greek and Roman antiquities. Leaving out of account the curriculum of classical studies common to our colleges in general in a more or less eminent degree, we assume for Harvard the sole enjoyment in America of a chair for the study of classical philology in its strictest sense and as it is followed in the German universities. Such a course was not calculated to reveal any extraordinary or immediate developments, but it is hoped...
...dispatch announces the death of John D. Defrees, late public printer, at Berkeley Springs, Va., yesterday afternoon...
...those for boys, have been established by the New York local committee at Nos. 21 and 23 West Thirty-second street. The object is "to turnish experienced and responsible teachers, at the lowest possible cost to the student." The instructor in Latin and Greek is Dr. E. G. Sihler, late Johns Hopkins Fellow in Greek, and his charge will be proportional to the size of his class. "Earnest students not preparing for the examinations, will be admitted to the classical and mathematical courses. - [N. Y. Post...
...with them, the faculty's action is very acceptable to all, but we are inclined to think that many will question the wisdom of the concession of this particular point. The evils which result from constant familiarity with the professional aspect of base ball have become so evident of late that it was no surprise to us when the movement against practice with professionals manifested itself, but we confess we are more than surprised at the way in which our rulers have been pleased to ignore the pressing need of some measure of reform. - [Yale Record...
...custom of going to the theatre in a body, and to induce their classmates to join with them in the undertaking. It is greatly to be hoped that this rumor is unfounded. We can conceive of nothing more unfortunate than the revival of this custom at Harvard; nothing of late years has ever tended so much to hurt the reputation of Harvard in the outside world as the continuation of this harmful custom. To '85 belongs the honor of first abandoning it. Let not the charge be laid upon '86 of reviving the practice after once the precedent had been...