Word: minorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...muscles. In fact, it is the skilled muscles roughly directed by good brains which win, and not the players most skilled in the use of their muscles. Mind as well as body has to be considered by the successful captains in the selection of their men. Then there are minor considerations which keep students in steady training, and help to induce more men to work than finally appear in the great contests, such, for instance, as the ambition to secure an office or position in one of the university organizations, and thus an honorable standing as a college...
...provisions of the will of the late Mrs. S. G. Stone, of Boston, $75,000 is given to Bowdoin, $50,000 to Amherst, and $35,000 to Dartmouth. The sum of $1,840,000 is divided among twenty-seven minor educational and charitable institutions...
...Scottish University act of 1858 precluded his election." Under the statue each university has three governing bodies-a senates academicus, a university court and a general council. The first regulates the property, discipline and instruction of the university; the second reviews the decisions of the first and regulates minor internal affairs; and the third is a deliberative body which advises the university court. Apart from these dignified bodies each university has for chief individual officers a chancellor, representing the higher powers, a vice chancellor, appointed by the chancellor, and a rector elected by the matriculated students. The latter...
...should also be said, has been foremost in devising and suggesting new plans whereby the services might be rendered more impressive and less irksome. At the close of the service Wednesday, Dr. Hale took occasion to comment upon some features of the exercises and to suggest improvements in some minor details, especially urging upon the students as a matter of mutual courtesy, punctuality in attendance and greater decorum in abstaining from hastening away directly after the benediction. The chapel services at Harvard, he remarked, in point of decorum and impressiveness were not surpassed by any other similar service...
This if true is certainly as much a matter of pride to the college in general as to Dr. Hale and his coadjutors on the board of overseers, and the appeal for the correction of certain minor defects in the matter need not be made in vain. Yet every advance made by the college in the improvement of these exercises but emphasizes more strongly the essentially false character under which they are held. A college, which in other matters distinctly disowns the paternal theory of college government makes but and ill showing in insisting upon preserving the anomaly of compulsory...