Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Evening Post comments as follows on a letter from a correspondent touching the effect on the condition of the American universities of the small pay received by the professors: He contends that a man who has the stuff of a good professor in him, or, as "N. N." calls it, "the grit of spontaneous scholarship," will not allow the smallness of his salary to "cool his ardor or check his enthusiasm," and he points to the vigor and industry of the German professors as showing how little effect poverty really has or ought to have on the quality...
...Kappa Alpha Society, the oldest of the college Greek letter secret fraternities, was founded at Union College in 1825. Its first chapter was planted at Williams College in 1833, among the founders at Williamstown being the late United States Senator James Dixon of Connecticut. The Williams chapter is to celebrate its semi-centennial this year in connection with the college commencement. A public reception will be given on the evening of July...
...recent number of the Transcript contains a letter from Oxford which gives many interesting particulars of life at an English university...
...long-busted student received and opened a letter from his paterfamilias. The first words which he read: "In-closed you will find" - made him set up a hilarious cry. But his jaw dropped as he read the remainder of the sentence as follows: "a plan of our new home." Poor boy, he had a very narrow escape from being an inmate of a lunatic asylum...
...recent number of the Boston Journal contains a letter on the scarcity of students' rooms at Harvard and the need of new dormitories. At present but 543 students out of the 928 in the college catalogue are accommodated in the college dormitories. As a result the lodging-house keepers who accommodate the rest of the students have been from time to time raising their rates until their demands have become so extortionate as to make the price of living at Harvard so high as to turn away men to other colleges. The writer in the Journal thinks some means should...