Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These examinations for women are identical with the Harvard entrance examinations for men, are held in New York at the same time with the latter, and both are presided over by the same professor from Harvard. To the private schools of New York they are of great value as forming a standard by which the quality of the teaching may be teased, for, even when candidates fail, the failure gives them and the instructors a clearer idea of the meaning of "accurate" work, and already more than one school has acknowledged its indebtedness to them as having been the means...
FOUND on Kirkland Place, a short time ago an engraved gold ring with setting the latter forming a locket. Owner may obtain same by applying at the CRIMSON Composing Room, No. 3 Linden street, between 1 and 2 o'clock...
...Thirty-fourth street, and thus put their man in safety, while the sophs were trying to tug the bowl after them and establish the desired union between bowl and bowl-man. But the fates were against them. Bowl and bowl-man got further and further apart, until the latter gained the street...
...there are very few schools in the country where boys are taught the literature of America. This is a crying evil and should be remedied. The question is how to do it? The editorial quoted suggests the remedy. It lies with the colleges, not with the schools, for the latter shape their curriculum according to the requirements for admission to college. Let us require, then, in our entrance examinations a knowledge of one or two of the principal American authors. The schools cannot help following our lead in this matter, and it may be the means of lifting from...
...excellent one of large dimensions has been erected. It is to the discredit of Princeton men that subscriptions have been raised, not only tardily, but in such small amounts. Several alumni agreed to donate a thousand dollars provided the undergraduates of the college furnished twelve thousand. Before this latter amount was raised the money promised by the alumni was asked for, but the gentleman who had control of the matter courteously refused, stating at the same time that when Princeton men made an agreement they should be taught to carry it out. There are seven of last year's team...