Word: pres
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WILSON, Pres. H. T. A. League...
...announcement, just out, of the second part of the "Philosophical Series" by Pres. McCosh will interest students of Philosophy. The notice reads as follows:-No. V.-"Locke, with a notice of Berkeley." It is shown that Locke held by a body of truth, and that he has often been misunderstood; but that he has not by his experience theory iaid a sure foundation of knowledge. No. VI.-"David Hume as expounded by Huxley." It is unnecessary to examine Hume's skepticism, but it is best to do so in the defense of it by Huxley. No. VII.-"A Criticism...
...occurs today, brought out a suggestion that Prof. Emerton, who is now delivering a course of lectures in Boston, on Luther should be invited to deliver a lecture on that subject before the students of the university. In yesterday's issue we printed an abstract of a lecture by Pres. Porter of Yale which illustrates what we wish. There are dozens of topics which come up every day outside the class room which interest the students and nothing would be pleasanter or more appropriate than for them to hear these questions discussed by members of the college corps of instructors...
...following is the substance of a recent lecture by Pres. Porter of Yale as reported by the News...
...also was short-lived. Three or four other literary ventures were made at Yale but they all followed in the steps of the "Cabinet"until in 1839 the "Yale Lit" was founded, and this is now the foremost of her publications. Among its editors it has numbered Pres. Gilman of Jolms Hopkins, Secretary Evarts, Donald Milchell and others of equal renown. Of Harvard'd publications Mr. Thwing says "although Harvard's papers have been less numerous than Yale's, they indicate, (considered as a whole) greater literary ability and have had greater influence on college opinion." This is certainly flattering...