Word: recently
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...cannot speak too warmly of the earnest, manly, and studious spirit which has pervaded in the University in recent years. I believe that the professors in the literary department are agreed in the opinion that the introduction of the elective system into the last two or two and a half years of the collegiate courses has contributed much to this result. There has been in years past much undiscriminating criticism by some ultra-conservative college officers in the East of any attempt at modifying the iron-clad curriculum. But it is noteworthy that the very colleges which have been...
...following unqualified commendation of our prayer petition appeared editorially in a recent issue of the New York Evening Post...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In a recent issue of the New York World appeared a report of the meeting of the Yale alumni. The choice of a successor to Dr. Noah Porter was discussed at some length, but the principal topic of conversation was whether Yale should have an elective system similar to the one now adopted at Harvard. One of the speakers said, "I never knew a boy who went to college at the proper time, from sixteen to nineteen years of age, who knew what line of study was really best for him. Yale has recently been compared disparagingly...
...following is copied from a student's notes of one of Prof. Norton's recent lectures, - "Moral sentiment is of very slow growth. A few days since Mr. Lowell was speaking to a body of students, 20 or 30 in number, in regard to civil service reform. He spoke with great earnestness in respect to the reform as having a moral element, as being of no less importance than the old anti-slavery contest, in some aspects, perhaps, even of greater consequence than that. When he spoke in this way in regard to the moral principle involved in civil service...
...says, "I was graduated last year." But it is different with the senior of '86. He says, at once with pleasure and with regret, "I am graduated this year." Thus the coming of a new year seems somehow to make more of a change than it really does. The recent graduate is more a graduate, and the present senior seems more a senior than before...