Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Exeter will hold her first winter athletic meeting in the gymnasium the latter part of this term...
...building. Copies of this will be sent to every alumni association in the country, and the protest will be presented to the corporation at the earliest possible opportunity. It is generally understood that the influence of the alumni is greater than that of the undergraduates, but the latter will in all probability make a formal protest to the corporation against the removal of the most venerable of Yale institutions-the fence...
...open to the public, were filled by an eager audience. Prof. Adler was briefly introduced by Prof. James, and in an easy, slow and dignified manner began by defining the meaning of ethics and culture. The meaning of the first of these terms is definite and clear, of the latter, loose and vague. There are three marks of culture, literary tastes, aesthetic tastes and ease and freedom in the forms of polite society. One having these marks is esteemed cultured, and since they depend largely upon leisure and wealth the ideas of culture and wealth have come...
...entirely ineffectual. Such a person could be engaged for a salary of $1.500, equal to an addition of four cents to the weekly board bill of each man. But part of this could be justly paid by reducing the steward's "contingent compensation," as the latter's duties would be much lessened. The steward and directors now nominally perform the duties of "inspector," but the former has not the necessary time and the latter cannot be expected to perform such a disagreeable daily task. Thus by the addition of eight cents to the board bill, the quality of the food...
...given up to rhetoric. All students were taught the principles of rhetoric and were required to practice English composition and once a month declaim. (7) Saturday at eight o'clock in the morning, all the students were taught "Divinity Catecheticall" and at nine o'clock "Common Places." These latter were common topics of scholastic discussion and digests of doctrine, argument or opinion. (8) The last place in the curriculum was given to history and nature. At one o'clock Saturday afternoon, immediately after the twelve o'clock dinner, the students were taught history in the winter and the nature...