Word: personally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from those (and they are few and simple enough) which govern Harvard men who live in the college dormitories. With us, those who are responsible for the good order of their buildings are denominated proctors, but in the English universities the proctor is a very different and much grander person. Those whose duty it is in the separate colleges of Oxford to keep order and conduct the examinations are the tutors, most of whom reside within the walls...
...learning and a teacher of morals. It is dedicated to "Christo et Ecclesiae," and has "Veritas" for the motto on its coat-of-arms; and what has Butler to do with Christ and His Church or with "Truth?" If it discovers that in giving a degree to a particular person the college will impair its moral standing and lower the value of its diplomas with all respectable and thoughtful men, it is its duty not to give it. Moreover, it cannot afford, any more than any apostle, or prophet, or moralist, or minister, to do a wrong thing just once...
...Governor Butler's explanation the Advertiser says: He knows, and every intelligent person in the United States knows, that the college has departed from its usual custom not on account of his political creed, not on account of the condition or the principles of his supporters, not on account of his qualifications or want of qualifications in the item of learning, but because he is himself a person whose public character and example are inimical to the standards a university is under the highest obligation to approve and inculcate...
...terrific tornado visited Greenville, Texas, on Sunday night, demolishing 150 houses, wrecking several churches, and doing much other damage. Only one person was killed...
...London correspondent of the Advertiser says in a recent letter: "Harvard alumni will be glad to know that a recognition of the claims of American scholarship is about to be made by the English university of Cambridge, in the person of Prof. W. W. Goodwin. Your eminent Greek scholar is to receive the honorary degree of LL. D. at Cambridge on the 12th of June, in company with Sir John Lubbock, Matthew Arnold, M. Pasteur, the great French chemist; George F. Watts, the painter; General Menabrea, the Italian minister in London; Sir Alexander Grant, the principal of Edinburgh University...