Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Alpha Delta Phi has purchased the club house formerly occupied by the Institute of 1770. The Institute has taken the old Alpha Delta Phi rooms...
Then the change of the length of the halves to two of 35 minutes instead of the old regulation of two of 45 minutes is an important innovation, tending to make the game quicker and more lively. The old form of opening play has been abolished and the new rules require a bona fide kick of more than ten yards. A new official has been added, to be known as a linesman, whose duty shall be to keep time, mark the distance gained, and give testimony to unnecessary roughness, offside play, and holding...
Tilton '90, the old oar and football man was on the side lines yesterday...
During the forty-five years of Professor Cooke's connection with the University his services both to the University and chemical science have been of great value. He was largely influential in the recent development of the laboratory system of instruction which is rapidly replacing the old methods of teaching throughout the country. By the application of that system at Harvard he built up the department of chemistry and gave it a recognized position in the scientific world. Professor Cooke himself was a scholar of the highest rank and his individual investigations attracted widespread attention both in the United States...
What I would urge, therefore, is that no invidious distinction should be made between the Old Learning and the New, but that students, due regard being had to their temperaments and faculties, should be encouraged to take the course in modern languages as being quite as good in point of mental discipline as any other, if pursued with the same thoroughness and to the same end. And that end is Literature, for there language first attains to a full consciousness of its powers and to the delighted exercise of them. Literature has escaped that doom of Shinar whcih made...