Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rumored that strong efforts will be made, to present another Greek play here next year, as a part of the celebration of the 250th anniversary...
...list, does not say, unfortunately, whether he places the game among the new, or the disreputable sports. His opinion, however, can be conjectured from the fact that bicycle riding is put on his list. This omission of base ball may, of course, have been accidental on the president's part; but, considering the care with which the list is made out, and the prominence of the sport, such an accident seems unlikely. We shall look with interest for future developments of the president's idea...
Cornell has established a course in elocution. It seems as though the colleges at large were beginning to realize how important a part elocution plays in the modern education. Few have the advantage of being able to speak to the point, but no one should be ignorant of how to use the voice, and by it make up for his lack of matter...
...social and educational privileges of the families of law-years or physicians, or of average merchants. The calling of a teacher is much more appreciated than it was fifty years ago, but there is still a selfish disregard of their rightful claims, because of their helplessness, on the part of their more money-getting brethren, which savors of meanness and hypocrisy in a community which is forever pointing with pride, as the nation would say, to their schools and their colleges. We want for Harvard College, to place her professors and other insturctors on a proper footing, just to them...
...leading authorities in economical matters in this country, as, for example, Gen. Francis A. Walker, Mr. Atkinson and Mr. Bradford. If any one of these gentlemen could be induced to deliver one or more lectures at Harvard, we feel sure that there would be deep gratitude felt on the part of the students...