Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...appointed, a short time ago, to examine the condition of the Universities, and recommend whatever changes they might deem advisable. Surely, if those customs which have existed almost from time immemorial, fail when they are on their native heath, they cannot but do likewise if transplanted to a new soil. It must seem strange to a disinterested person that a dying system should be the subject of study; such a person would certainly say that the object of the President's visit might better have been termed the study, not of the system of instruction and general management...
...promise of a new elective in political economy ought to be one of the most welcome of all the additional courses. Considering the importance of the subject and the benefits which a knowledge of its principles confers on those who would be intelligent and active citizens, one elective would seem scarcely sufficient to give a comprehensive view of the subject...
YALE wants a new fence, on which they can sit and sing themselves away in everlasting bliss; the "sweetest reminiscence of college life." The Record is horrified at the amount of studying done on Sunday; but does not reflect what an awful thing it is to be on the fence between fear of God and fear of a condition in the Calculus. "There is a rumor abroad that Harvard will give a free Glee Club concert at Saratoga next July, in the regatta ball-room." For enterprising discovery of items, commend us to the Yale Record...
...original plot is clothed in seventeen verses of "full-orbed moon," "castle gray," "quiet stream," "gloomy pall," etc., etc. How long will it be before students will learn that mere permutation of high-sounding epithets to form metre is not poetry? The paper is under the management of a new board, which begins its duties with an editorial, the first part of which contains an apology for writing anything at all, and the last a sort of prospectus of the coming four seasons. We especially admire their close observations of nature as exemplified in their striking similes...
...date which was at first set for the publication of the historical album of the University (if it may be so called), it is found, does not afford time for the thorough preparation of all the subjects coming within the scope of the work. Moreover, new subjects have come up which should not be overlooked, and which demand more time than could be given them were the book to appear in June...