Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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ONE of our most prominent literary societies was greatly amused the other evening at hearing one of its shining lights assert, in debate upon the Modoc war, that the only way for our government to deal with the wary red man was to pursue a similar course to that adopted...
AT the meeting in Boston of the Social Science Association, last Wednesday, there was an exciting discussion concerning the Higher Education of Women, in which President Eliot was severely attacked for not opening Harvard College to women. The advocates of reform rely chiefly on theoretical and abstract reasons. They say...
The reasons of opponents are chiefly practical, such as their experience has taught them. Thus, President Eliot says that, having examined some thirty mixed colleges in the West, he has come to a conclusion hostile to them. Oberlin College, which began without distinguishing in any manner the female from the...
In room 25 Stoughton there is an interesting transmittendum. On the panels of the closet doors some fine paintings were executed by a member of the class of '54. These doors were about to be removed, and the occupant roundly fined, when the President of the College fortunately happened in...
THE Rev. Dr. O. S. Munsell, President of the Illinois Wesleyan University, has been up before the trustees on a charge of a new kind of "lip-service," and has resigned in accordance with a strong hint. What the charge against the playful divine was can be inferred from the...