Word: profs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Prof. Ripley of Yale played an exhibition match with Sears of Boston at New Haven on Tuesday. Prof. Ripley is said to be an expert at tennis...
...Prof. Palmer's "New Education," also (from the Forum) "How I Was Educated...
...Prof. Asa Gray has received an honorary degree from Cambridge (Eng.), University...
Speaking of the international race in which Jesus College has promised to take part, and in which probably one or two other Cambridge and Oxford colleges would be represented, Prof. Jasper T. Goodwin of Columbia College says: "The proposed plan is a most excellent one, if it can be brought about. There are certain obstacles, however, which would have to be met and overcome. In the first place, the colleges in this country would want to compete with a representative 'varsity crew, not with a crew which pretended to represent only one of the colleges of the university. I think...
...understood by those who live under a given system, strike a stranger with the charm of novelty; they are tacitly compared with other institutions, and their true character is often more keenly perceived and brought out by such observers than by any others. De Tocqueville's book, parts of Prof. Dicey on 'The Law of the Constitution,' and such a treatise as Cottu on the 'Administration of Criminal Justice in England,' are instances of this. Much of this sort of merit is found in this little book by Von Hoist. An illustration of it may be seen in his striking...