Word: one
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...One hundred and forty-two Amherst alumni have signed a petition asking for a base-ball advisory committee. The Amherst senate has the matter under consideration...
...Boston Athletic Club has admitted one hundred new members, thereby increasing its membership to 1500. This is the limit, and no more applicants can be admitted without a special vote of the club...
...secret societies are soon to be started at Yale. One, a secret society, will take its members from all departments; the other will be a local academic society, confined to the junior class and competing with Psi Upsilon and Delta Kappa Epsilon, which have recently limited their membership to twenty...
...action of the Harvard College Overseers in adopting a minute providing for a certain modification of the policy pursued by the president and faculty for some years past, is one of those interferences by outsiders with college management which must always, on general principles, be more or less regretted. For the overseers are, to all intents and purposes, outsiders-the representatives of alumni who live all over the country-and are intended to be what their name indicates-a sort of council to keep an eye on the doings of the faculty and students. They are, for the most part...
...esteem in which they hold the professor-that is, the small importance they attach to their opinions about everything relating to the conduct of life-everything, in short, outside the special subject which the professor teaches. It is a rare thing to find a graduate of one of our leading colleges who has brought away any respect for the faculty in any character but that of men of learning. As men of the world, or as social or moral philosophers, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that he contemns them and contemns their calling. Now and then a professor...