Word: scared
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little comment has been passed by various papers on the sanitary condition of the buildings at Yale, owing to the recent deaths of persons connected with the college from typhoid fever. These seem to be reviving the general feeling of uneasiness which existed at the time of the Princeton scare. It does not seem possinle that any remediable cause of disease could be allowed to lurk in any of their college buildings...
...summer or in the fall. Why cannot this custom be introduced into the college, in the case of all the lower class men. A man is expected to render an account of a year's work in three hours of the hottest weather it is possible to scare up. He jumps from recitations to examinations, and his only desire is to get through the period, regardless whether he does well or not. In many of the courses here, the lectures and recitations merely serve to point out to a man the best authorities on the subject he is studying...
...accessions in the department of antiquities and folk lore are particularly interesting, several old and scare titles being here entered. It is pleasant to note that Prof. Childs' "English and Scottish Popular Ballads" occupies a prominent place in this list. The library possesses No. 197. There are only 1000 copies...
...active political or journalistic life. This fact has been recognized by many of the universities of the country, and already at Columbia and Ann Arbor have been established schools of political science, whose special object is to train men for engaging in active politics. Although it seems that the scare at Harvard about the reduction of the courses in the subject had little foundation in fact, it is certain that this university has made but few advances in political subjects in the past few years. It is true the men are now allowed to take honors in the subject...
President White, Professors Tyler, Burbank, Tuttle and Fiske were active in organizing here during the last campaign a branch of the Civil Service Reform Association. They succeeded in giving the old-timers something of a scare, and doubtless contributed to the overwhelming Republican defeat in this country. President White is very much in earnest on the subject of civil service reform...