Word: says
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-The various schemes that are proposed to change the nature and form of some of our college buildings are, to say the least, astonishing, and reflect great credit upon the ingenuity and imagination of the average student's mind. Harvard and Massachusetts Hall have tarnished abundant food to the minds of half a dozen inventive genie, and plan upon plan has been handed in to make the latter building useful as well as ornamental. The few examinations held in Massachusetts cannot compensate either faculty or students for the loss of valuable space which might be used...
President Eliot has a good word to say for the study of history in his recent article in the June Century, discussing the proper elements for a college education. "If any study is liberal and literalizing," he writes, "it is the modern study of history. Philology and polite literature arrogate the title of the humanities;' but what study can so justly claim that honorable title as the study which deals with the actual experience on this earth of social and progressive...
...Arthur? still remains open for discussion. Perhaps it will never be determined, but for Americans, for those at least who pretend to be careful in their speech, it may be claimed that they offend no oftener than do their English cousins. Good, or what are called good, English writers say "different than," for which there appears no authority in either etymology or syntax. They persist in the use of "whilst" as firmly as they do in their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour" and "cheque." Whatever modifications in English orthography have been the result of a desire to expunge useless letters...
...Columbia University crew is to row a two-mile race with the freshman crew of that college some day this week, and as both crews have new shells, many venture to say that the freshman crew will cross the line ahead of the Columbia representative crew...
...freshman class, since they felt the need of this all important information more than the men who were in the upper classes. Yet, even the upper classes felt that no trouble was taken either by the professors or faculty to make their choice easier. We are glad to say that this unfortunate state of affairs no longer exists, and in all probability will never reappear. Both faculty and instructors have vied with each other in giving all the aid possible, both to new and old students. The instructors for their part, have kindly volunteered to see and talk with...