Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...desire their names to remain unknown. The object of the new chair of instruction is, as expressed by the donors, to impart an intelligent apprehension of the English Bible, with a view to stimulating an earnest Christian faith and developing a manly Christian life. In commemoration of the late President Woolsey the professorship will be called the Woolsey professorship...
...Institute of Technology receives $5000 by the will of the late Elisha T. Lofing...
...Harvard Union have decided to hold the next meeting Monday evening. November 4. Since the meeting occurs the day before the election, and as there is considerable local interest in the election it is expected that the debate will be well attended and hotly contested. The political discussions of late years called out a large number of students and many creditable specters were made. The first political discussion of last year will be remembered as one of the most successful meetings of the Union. The question for debate Monday evening is Resolved: That the election of Mr. Russell would...
Considerable unjust criticism has been going the rounds of the college of late condemning the recent regulations of the faculty forbidding dropped men from entering as contestants in home athletic games. It is very easy of course to account for the general college sentiment in the matter, and certainly at first thought the restriction does seem harsh. A little careful reflection, however, puts the subject in a new light. If the student will but fairly ask himself the question, "what after all is the purpose of college life?" he cannot fail to see the justice of the faculty's regulation...
...State University at Burlington Vt., has received a gift of five hundred volumes of classical books from the library of the late Prof J. N. Wheeler of the University of Virginia...