Word: minor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Serious insubordination was punished by flogging "in the hall, openly," a dastardly custom that was not abolished until 1755, when corporal punishment was suspended by the corporation and never revived. The minor offences were punished by fines varying in amount with the enormity of the offence. Smoking was prohibited "unless permitted by the President, with the consent of parents and guardians, and on good reason first given by a physician." Money was very scarce in those days and a frequent delinquent who had the ill-luck to be detected in his wrong-doing would soon find himself impoverished. Indeed ready...
...organized after the parts for the last senior exhibition have been assigned. It is composed of three classes of persons, namely, the true Navy, which consists of those who have never had parts; the Marines, those who have a major or second part in the senior year, but no minor or first part in the junior year; and the Horse-Marines, those who have had a minor or first part in the junior year, but have subsequently fallen off, so as not to get a major or second part in the Senior. Of the Navy officers, the Lord High Admiral...
...value of Harvard's new "publication, the "Quarterly Journal of Economics, seems to be generally realized even outside of the college. The Nation published in its last number a very complimentary notice of the new journal. Although the writer of the review takes occasion to criticise mildly some minor points in the articles of the journal, the lively and trustworthy treatment of the great practical subjects, such as the account of the "Southwestern Strike" and the Knights of Labor, received due praise. Students of political economy, and especially college students, are fortunate in possessing a magazine which will give clear...
...land, and have brought back the enthusiasm for their work which is so strengthened by the seeing of the eye, the touch of the hand, and a general experience of classic lands. One of them, by the generosity of Miss Wolfe, was enabled to extend his researches to Asia Minor, from which he brought away a collection of over nine hundred inscriptions which, in the opinion of the great European epigraphists, is second to no other in historical value, and will, when edited and published, add great luster to American scholarship in the person of Doctor Sterrett...
...Relations with Elam; - with Syria and the Hittites; - with Phoenicia and Cyprus; - with North Arabia; - with Persia The reciprocal influence of Babylonian and Assyrian art and the artistic development of the peoples of these countries. The influence of Babylonian and Assyrian art on Hellenic art through Phoenicia and Asia Minor, and on early Italic art through the Phoenicians...