Word: pace
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...excite some surprise. To put his statement in few words, he declares that the New Haven institution is in a bad way. He claims that its methods of instruction are far behind the times, and that they are inadequate to meet the demands of those who wish to keep pace with the present advance of education. After complaining of a few minor evils which exist in the management of the college, he closes with the prediction that the new president, whoever he may be, will find a heavy task before him in altering the present system of management...
Harper's Weekly has a brief article on the foot-ball question. In speaking of the Yale-Princeton game, it says: "The annual encounter of the elevens of these two colleges seems to be looked to as affording "the pace" at which college foot-ball shall be carried on. Their last match at New Haven was universally commended as an uninterrupted and gentleman-like pursuit of the game proper, unattended by private fisticuffs or wrestling bouts of a brilliant but extra and unnecessary kind, and it was perhaps very greatly in consequence of the quality of this match that...
...grounds at Sandy Hill, then into Somerville, up over Winter Hill and through the back yards of "Goatville." Passing out from that delightful quarter the hounds were speeded on their way by the youthful portion of the population. College Hill and Tufts College were passed at a round pace, and then all came across to upper North Avenue. The break was made about three-fourths of a mile from home at a point near Linnaen street. The first hound in, Bailey, '88, was fifteen minutes behind the hares, who thus won easily. Bailey, Dana and Dudley receive prizes. Lothrop...
...belong entirely to the school, and the inspiration to the college. There is no demarkation, with one spirit of education on the one side and another spirit of education on the other. The colleges cannot prosper unless the schools also prosper. The colleges of New England do not keep pace with the growth of the population. Not only is the growth of the colleges alarmingly small, but the progress of the preparatory schools is equally unsatisfactory. President Eliot believed that it is a relaxation on the part of the colleges to admit students by certificate from a large number...
...some of the instructors of detaining their sections until the hour has fully expired. By this practice the unfortunate student in such courses is compelled to rush down innumerable flights of stairs and make his way along Oxford street and through the yard at a neck or nothing pace. It need hardly be said that such unnatural speed as this is harmful to the last degree, especially since it is apt to follow closely upon the exhaustion produced by the daily sprint race to the chapel doors. Yet the student must go into this "rush," or else be marked absent...