Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot will read a paper before the Nineteenth Century Club next Tuesday on the "Study of Greek...
...discussion of the Greek question which should be memorable will take place in New York next month. President Eliot will address the Nineteenth Century Club on the important step lately taken by Harvard College in making the study of the classics elective to students in all classes. The debate following the exposition of President Eliot's views will be participated in by President Porter of Yale, and President McCosh of Princeton...
...arises perhaps from a misunderstanding of the term and its application to the college at large. A simple meaning is that it express a "don't-carewhat-happens" state; in other words, a non-emotional existence which has its good points when compared to the headlong whirl of the nineteenth century, and those that are bad when compared to the athletic standing of rival colleges. If indifference enables men to bear defeat or loss, either in the baseball field, in football, or at the boatrace, with tolerable equanimity, or to hail victories without any outrageous demonstration, it is, and ought...
...intended to give a few informal talks or lectures on the importance of forming a taste for English reading, and the best method to be pursued in acquiring this taste, besides giving a sort of summary of the most prominent and most interesting English writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. As such a course would undoubtedly be both interesting and instructive, we hope the rest of the lectures will be given if possible. The time of the year is not as favorable for the success of a voluntary course of lectures as it would have been earlier...
...this latter part of the nineteenth century when a feeling of independence and equality, that one man is as good as another, is nowhere more clearly shown than in American college life, it is curious to notice in what a hotbed of aristocracy the early days of our colleges were spent...