Word: roman
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course on American History will be given by Mr. Hoague, and Mr. Gurney will give a course on "The Later History of the Roman Empire." The course on Roman Law is changed from a graduate to an undergraduate course, and an advanced course is added for graduates...
...some new study or branch of knowledge which they would like to see introduced at Harvard. Mr. Perry has kindly given the subjects which were chosen, and they are as follows: Shorthand, 11; Chinese Language, 8; Gymnastics, 8; Hygiene, 6; English Literature, 5; Singing, 4; Literature, 4; Greek and Roman Antiquities, 3; Elocution, 3; German Conversation, 3; English Composition, 2; Russian Language, 2; Use of Books, 2; and one each on Political Science, Theory of Mathematics, Advanced Course in Fine Arts, Scientific Theory, History of the United States, Natural History of Every Day Life, Modern Civilization, English History, Geography, Preparation...
PHILLIPS Exeter Academy is the only leading preparatory school for Harvard that has not adopted the recommended system of Roman pronunciation of Latin...
...season seems to be a favorable one for controversies between college papers. The Courant and Record have wheeled into line after the example of the Era and Review, and are having "a real old-time Greco-Roman with crossed quills." The Courant has in its last issue a pretty severe "rough" on one of the Record editors, and we are waiting with anxiety to see the Record pay back the compliment with interest. Thank Heaven that the Advocate and Crimson can nearly always confine their remarks about each other to their brevity columns...
...fully sensible of the inviolable rights of individuals, and are sufficiently patient, even during the Mid-Years, to put up with the noisy rounds of Graeco-Roman practised overhead, and can endure with philosophic calmness Smith's hilarious "Jubilate to the 'unconscious moon.' " But, unfortunately, our patience is not infinite; and we must protest against the habit of certain occupants of the upper rooms in the south entry of Matthews, of throwing bottles down through the staircase shaft. Thus the necessary and much-frequented passage-way to the basement is made very disagreeable, if not positively dangerous. We are convinced...