Word: readings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Stedman, of '63, will read the next Phi Beta Kappa poem at Harvard...
...take their meals at the Ladies' Boarding Hall at $2.50 a week," and the general regulation that "gentlemen shall not visit the rooms of the lady students, nor ladies the rooms of the gentleman students." Care has been taken that young ladies and gentlemen shall not quarrel, for we read that "scuffling, noisy sports, and disorderly company" (whatever that may be) are at all times strictly prohibited. Drury is even ahead of Dartmouth in the way of reforming college morals. To quote again from the rules: "Students must wholly abstain from all profane, vulgar, or unbecoming language. They must...
Amateur Latin verse is all very well, if the quantities and forms are all right, and the constructions classical. But if the lines will not scan, it is of no account that they can be rattled over so as to read something like Virgil or Ovid...
...Dartmouth's lines read thus, with the correction of an obvious misprint at the end of line sixth, whether due to the Advocate or the original we cannot say. They are taken from the "Faerie Queene...
...will be found that the only subjects required twenty-five years ago and not now among the requisitions for a degree are Natural History and Curves and Planes. Of these two studies the first was a Sophomore and the second a Junior study. The amount of Latin and Greek read in 1850 was not much, if at all, greater than what the present student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses in mathematics have been allowed for more than half a century. At the present day, any attempt...