Word: profs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...George Saintsbury, formerly of Merton College, Oxford, who has just been nominated by the Crown to the chair of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh, made vacant by the resignation of Prof. David Masson, has completed his volume on Nineteenth Century Literature, which contains some of his most brilliant work. The difficulties, not alone of generalization and classification, but also of selection and proportionment, are infinitely greater in the case of writers of our own century than in that of earlier writers; yet Mr. Saintsbury has emerged very successfully from his difficult task, and has produced...
...Permanent athletic relations are not for the best interests of the student body.- (a) Athletics consume too much time: Prof. Taussig, Grad. Mag. III. P. 300; Pres. Eliot's Report for 1894, pp. 16-18.- (x) Summer training.- (b) Predominance of athletics injurious beyond college.- (1) Exeter troubles: CRIMSON, Dec. 18, 1894.- (c) Lead to bad blood.- (1) Unfairness must be met with unfairness, or grim forbearance, until alliance ends.- (d) Not for the best interests of Harvard's prestige and good-fellowship with other colleges.- (1) Such relations make her dependent upon an alliance.- (2) The University's stand...
Libert, Rev. Prof...
...continuing until Saturday, August 9, a period of five weeks. The school, which comprises the following departments, Economics, Ethics, Education and History of Religions, will this year be under the charge of Professor H. C. Adams of the University of Michigan, Dr. Felix Adler of New York, and Prof. C. H. Toy of Harvard University, and everything seems to point to a most successful session. Some of the most distinguished lecturers in the United States will be present, among whom are the following: Professor Arthur T. Hadley, Yale '76, who will deliver three lectures, July...
...Charles A. Davison, of New York, a classmate of the late Prof. Whitney, will preside. Prof. E. Washburn Hopkins of Bryn Mawr, who has recently been elected to succeed Prof. Whitney at Yale, will speak on "Sanscrit," Prof. Francis A. Marsh of Lafayette College on "General Philology," and Prof. Frank P. Goodrich of Williams, formerly of Yale, on "German Literature...