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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This afternoon the regular debate in English VI will be held in Sever 11, at 2 P. M. The subject is: What is the duty of the older colleges as to the higher education of women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 11/6/1884 | See Source »

...THURSDAY.English VI. (Oral Discussion.) Dr. Royce. Sever 11, 2 P. M. Question : What is the duty of the older colleges as to the Higher Education of Women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CALENDAR. | 11/1/1884 | See Source »

...subject of college athletics has, within the past year, attracted to itself unusual attention. Among several of the older and larger colleges and universities, the question has arisen and been earnestly discussed, whether the time has not now come for the adoption of some uniform regulations that shall control the contests so frequently recurring between the athletic clubs of the different colleges. One of these games-foot-ball-it is charged, has degenerated into methods bordering on the barbarous and brutal, while others have engrossed so much of the attention of the players as seriously to interfere with the higher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Robinson's Views on Athletics. | 10/15/1884 | See Source »

...expected that some of our many munificent friends of learning will by endowment place it upon a permanent basis. With a fixed director, qualified by prolonged residence on Hellenic soil, and no energy wasted in seeking to maintain its income, our school will compete in friendly emulation with the older institutes at Athens of France and Germany, not only to raise the standard of American scholarship, but to promote the world's understanding of the problems of that ancient life which soared with the swift and unerring flight of the eagle from the infancy of barbarism to the highest intellectual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American Classical School at Athens. | 10/1/1884 | See Source »

...college numbers between five and six hundred, and is increasing every year in popularity. Whatever may be the result of co-education, the present standing and success of Wellesly augurs well for the system of female education as there pursued. The college is making immense strides after its older rivals and despite the sex of its students bids fair to equal if not outstrip them in the race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley College, | 9/27/1884 | See Source »

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