Word: maye
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard has sent a protest to Princeton which includes all men now playing on the team and graduates who may be called on to play. All these men will be obliged to certify that they will stay at college through the whole term...
...convention of college presidents has been held in New Haven for the past two days. President Dwight of Yale presides and the general object of the convention is a discussion of branches of education taught in the colleges. The convention will discuss ways by which a better feeling may be established among the students of the different colleges in place of the rivalry that now exists in consequence of the competition in athletics. The subject of college athletics itself is one of the most important under discussion. The conference may result in the formation of an association of the presidents...
Professor Todd of Amherst who has charge of the expedition to Africa to view the sun, has planned a system of pneumatic valves worked by electricity by which the photographic apparatus may be worked automatically during the total eclipse...
...work and his theory have been the subject of sharp discussion in England, and since the production of "A Doll's House" in Boston last month, the interest here is scarcely less. Indeed there is some danger of an Ibsen cult equal to the recent Browning craze. But whatever may be thought of Ibsen's artistic principle, the power of his work is unquestioned, and "The Lady of the Sea" is at present of special interest because in it Ibsen suggests answers to the problems proposed by him in "A Doll's House...
...Philosophy so and so, and an hour examination in almost every course; in short we are surfeited with work, and so unable to do anything satisfactorily. Of course we cannot object to forensics since they are regularly counted as part of our college work, but a word may be said in reference to theses and hour examinations. Conceive them as best one may, the latter are certainly no more than necessary evils, though they serve a recognized purpose; any feasible plan for their abolition, there fore ought to be welcomed. Now during the present stress of work a thesis...