Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heading "Compulsory Attendance of College Students at Chapel Services," the Journal of Education has an article that at the present time is particularly applicable to Harvard. The writer excellently draws the distinction between a college and a university, showing how much more election in the study belongs to the latter than the former. The college in its aim is "general rather that special, being to develop, as lies in its power, the youth into a man, not into a teacher, lawyer, or other professional or business specialist." The university, on the other hand, is for special study, and is peculiarly...
...recent discussion between a junior and sophomore as to whether New York or Boston was founded first, the junior calmly asserted that the latter city was settled in "thirteen hundred and something." Being reminded that the continent was not discovered until 1492, he wilted...
...Frothingham, '84, though somewhat long and careless, is perhaps the best of its kind. In a serious tone Mr. Lord's sonnet on the Grave of Pompey, and the stanzas of Rev. T. C. Pease, '75 called The Songless Singer are most noteworthy. Although the theme of the latter is by no means new, yet its smoothness of lines, and depth of feeling make it the best in the issue. Its fault is possibly lack of compactness...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Two members of the class of '89 seem to be worrying themselves not a little about the examination in German. The first communication cried "baby," Mr. "Freshman" played "baby." The former, however, was evidently in earnest; the latter either wanted to impress the freshman class and the college in general with his superior ability, (for "because he deliberately shirked the great part of the work," he found some things that he did not know perfectly), or thought that he had found an opportunity for indulging in some (childish) sarcasm...
...following clipping from the Lasell Leaves shows the state of the newspaper file at that institution "for the higher education of women:" "We hear that the only rival of the Harvard Lampoon now is the Police Gazette. We know little regarding the literary merits of the latter, but conclude its editors must stand as the head ranks of journalists to be compared to those of the Lampoon...