Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Philidon Chess Club of Cornell hopes to be successful in the matches it is now playing with Princeton and Ann Arbor...
...Professor Young of Princeton College, Professor Peirce of Harvard, President Porter of Yale, J. E. Hilgard of the United States Coast Survey office, President Garland of Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., President Barnard of Columbia College, Professor Henry of Smithsonian Institute, and other scientific scholars have signed a memorial to Congress asking that the naval observatory at Washington be removed to a healthier and better situation than it has now, and that, so far as possible, it be made fireproof. - Transcript...
...seems likely that our Freshmen have at length found some one to row with. The Freshmen at Columbia are devoting all their energies to the support of the University four, and therefore could not accept the challenge sent to them; Yale would not accept; Princeton has no navy; but at Cornell the challenge has been taken into consideration, and the probabilities are that it will be accepted. Cornell appears to be all enthusiasm to revive a college sport for which she has so many advantages, and if the race is decided on she will probably send a formidable crew...
...would cause us equal surprise and pleasure to see a number of the Princetonian in which there was not an elaborate defence of the President and Faculty of Princeton College, in answer to a charge made by some unfortunate New York daily. The last number contains the usual two columns of scorn, directed, this time against the Tribune...
...next Tuesday evening President McCosh, of Princeton, will deliver a lecture before the Inter-collegiate Association on "The importance of forming Associations among American Colleges to raise the Standard of Scholarship"; and Colonel T. W. Higginson will deliver an address on the history, objects, and needs of the Association. For four years this Association has been before the public, and every year it has met with less favor than it received the year before. As we have had occasion to show, the examinations cover less ground than do our examinations for second-year honors; so that the Association offers only...