Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...promoting the study of modern languages in American colleges. Among those present were Professors Cook and Lutz of Harvard, Lounsbury and Bendelari of Yale, Elliott and Wood of the Johns Hopkins University, Richardson of Amherst, Easton of the University of Pennsylvania, Huss of Princeton, Walter of the University of Michigan, and Smith of Columbia. President Carter of Williams was chosen chairman, and a committee appointed to draw up a plan for the permanent organization of the society. A resolution to the effect that it was the sense of the meeting that no college should grant the degree...
IGNORANCE.At Harvard, a Michigander of '82 was referee, and was so lamentably ignorant of the game that he decided away what was confessedly Michigan's game. [Argonaut...
...next meeting is to be held at Providence and the literary exercises for that meeting were given as follows: an oration to the Brunonian, the poem to the HERALD CRIMSON, a history of college journalism during the year to the University Magazine, and a general paper to the Michigan Chronicle. A plan was proposed and left to be perfected to a committee of two, by which the news of each college should be sent every week to a head office where all the slips of news should be gathered together and printed and remailed to the various college papers belonging...
Matthew Arnold is expected to lecture about Feb. 1 before Michigan University...
...Michigan Argonant gives the following account of Mr. Justin Winsor's address at the dedication of the Ann Arbor Library: "One of the most interesting features of the evening was the address by Mr. Justin Winsor on bibliography in general and the part books play in the world's progress. The address although read, was delivered in an entertaining, conversational manner and was very heartily appreciated by the audience. Taking for his text what some are pron to call "trash," he showed what an important part the lighter varieties of literature play, so that the "trash" of one age becomes...