Word: minorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thoroughly in the new style of boat and rigging used by them last year. It is said that the test of the boat was not made last year. They will therefore row in the same kind of boat, and the men will row in pairs. There have been some minor changes in the rigging, but practically it remains the same. The belief was so general last year that the race was lost through the bad steering of the coxswain, and the feeling against him was so strong, that he embraced the first opportunity he got to leave college. This year...
...attention to such departments of higher education that Harvard College earns the title of being the first American university. If Harvard wishes to claim a position among the universities of the world, she must present opportunities for instruction worthy of such a position. Completeness in minor departments does not constitute a university in the broadest and truest sense of the word. Although the number of students who wish to study Sanskirt or Zend or Semitic languages may be limited, a university which aspires to lead must be ready to supply the demand however slight. There should be no necessity...
...rowing rules of the Inter-Collegiate Association appear in a recent number of the Spirit of the Times. Comparing with the Yale-Harvard rules we find a few differences, although they are of minor importance; as we should naturally expect, the Yale-Harvard rules have the appearance of being more thought-fully and carefully drawn...
...certain freshman is said to have transferred his affections from Langtry to Patti, since at the last performance of the latter she patted him on the back and commended him for his make-up for a "minor part...
...spectacle, too, that would amply repay the curious any trouble of witnessing. Whenever the panorama of beauty and talent is on the stage, soloists sink into insignificance; chorus and music are alike forgotten, and the attention of every one is fixed on what are generally supposed to be the minor parts of an opera, but are so no longer. No; a revolution has taken place, and hereafter, thanks to the tender watchfulness of Harvard, the "supe" will be the great attraction. The examples of the success of the new method are numerous. Who has not observed the breathless interest with...