Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with the man on either side and places his hands on the shoulders of the man in front of him. In this way they form a solid phalanx, four abreast and from twenty to thirty deep. The freshmen are helped to form by the juniors and many of the latter aid in filling up the rear. When the lines are fully formed, they advance slowly step by step until within a few paces of one another, when the leaders, drawing in a long breath make the decisive charge. The side that forces the other side backwards wins this part...
...that the college curriculum through the modifying influence of the elective system, actually represented two kinds of training, collegiate and university, or gymnastic and scientific. While the early part of the entire course was given up to a variety of required studies for the purpose of general culture, the latter part of the curriculum opened the way to specialization by offering elective courses in which the student might work out his natural bent. In point of age the average American student in a first-class college is further advanced at the end of his sophomore year than the average German...
...call of Francis Lieber to Columbia College in 1857, marks the first recognition by a northern college of history and politics as properly co-ordinate sciences. At the College of South Carolina, Lieber had taught history, political economy and philosophy, as a homogeneous group. The presence of the latter subject in his professorship betrays a survival of the old scholastic connection between metaphysics and politics, a connection which lasted long at Harvard, Columbia and many other colleges. There is a valuable and suggestive idea in Lieber's first combination of history and politics which ought to influence all American colleges...
...functions of teacher and professor cannot be permanently separated. To be sure, in Germany, the two offices have been differentiated by the gymnasium and the university: but, in the latter, in recent times, there is a manifest return to old-fashioned tutorial methods in the institutions of the so-called Seminar, where professor and student are once more brought to gather as master and pupil. Harvard College has never departed altogether from the scholastic system upon which the institution was founded. In the maintenance of the classics, the lecture-system, tutors, examinations and recitations, as well as of religious exercises...
Then again Yale has developed a phenomenal pole-vauter. But in both of these events we have abundant good material, especially in the latter...