Word: manner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editor, Proposes to leave his fortune by will to found a chair of practical journalism in some Eastern college,-presumably Harvard or Yale. And although there is a delightful air of vagueness about the statement contained in the words "Western editor" and "fortune" that makes it read after the manner of an old fable, still, like an old fable, it has a moral, and it is of this moral that we propose to say a few words. the whole tone of our colleges is, we think, undergoing a considerable change in one respect in particular, namely, the light in which...
...formerly the custom for the instructors in themes and forensics to reserve books in the English Alcove, which treated in a more or less direct manner the subjects given out to the students in these courses. Within a year or two, this practice which was often very advantageous to the students has been entirely given up, and the students are at present obliged to seek for any information upon the subjects of their themes or forensics which they find. Often the library contains a book which affords special facilities for obtaining a good idea of the subject. If this were...
...upon as a connecting link between athletics, past and present, and with it are associated memories dearer than any other to the undergraduate heart. Any attempt to destroy or encroach upon this custom or to destroy its sacredness would be very likely to be treated in a very conservative manner. Thus it was when Columbia desired to enter the charmed circle, and thus the University of Pennsylvania finds it today. A challenge from the former institution has never been replied to by Yale, otherwise than by silence. Harvard, however, has gratified the earnest desire of Columbia for a race...
...first arrangement was final, as no changes were made in subsequent years, although it often happened that the relative rank of the parents would vary. The dissatisfaction sure to be caused by such an arrangement and the extreme difficulty of making out the lists in an impartial manner can readily be imagined. The upper and lower members of the class were not so difficult to arrange, but the claims of the members who occupied a middle position, and they were in the majority, were uncertain and hard to settle satisfactorily...
...facts that are obtainable in regard to Woodbridge. Up to now, save the work of Mr. Sibley, in the history of the first graduates, I know of no biography of Woodbridge, nor does Mr. Sibley. Wood, in the "Athenae," of course treats of him, but in a very limited manner. There is a lamentable ignorance among even Harvard's graduates concerning this their first one. I am at a loss to give extracts of my paper, for it is in itself a synoptical biography of the man, being not only his history, but an account of his life-work...