Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second forensic will be due Nov. 24 from 10 A. M. to 12 at Sever 3. Subjects : 1. Ought the studies of the Freshman year to be elective? 2. Was it good policy on the part of James I. to resist the demands of the Puritans? 3. In the study of literature, is it the better method to read a great amount, or to read a few authors with thoroughness? 4. Should the right of suffrage be limited by any qualifications or conditions...
Prof. J. W. White will give today in Sever 30, at 12 M., the first of a series of weekly lectures on the constitutional history of Greece. These lectures form a part of Greek...
...besides the courses offered by the college there are other sources from which our students of political proclivities may derive much benefit. The lectures under the auspices of the Finance Club afford invaluable instruction to all who hear them, and are as much a part of "instructive force" of the university as the lectures given in the different courses. Mr. Taussig's lucid essay on "Protection to Young Industries" was delivered Tuesday evening before a small but appreciative audience. This is the first lecture of a political character which has been offered to the students in this college year...
...YORK, Nov. 18th, 1882. - Columbia may well be called the Rip Van Winkle of American universities, for she surely has fallen into a sleep from which there are no signs of her waking before a great deal of the sweet bye-and-bye has become part of the happy long ago. Everything seems to have come to a standstill. Foot-ball, for which the fall regatta was abandoned that it might occupy all our attention, seems to take it out in occupying. The cricket club is non est, and cannot attract enough attention to get up a decent funeral. Base...
...those of the outside world who are wont to rail at the jeunesse doree and the "petted aristocracy" of our colleges, and particularly of Harvard, we commend as a very instructive instance of the much talked of fastidiousness and aversion to manual labor on the part of collegians, the occurrence of last Saturday forenoon on Holmes field, when, manfully seizing shovels and scrapers, two hundred Harvard students applied themselves with a will to the labor of clearing the entire field and benches of snow. This, it should be remembered, was a labor purely voluntary on their part and performed without...