Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...existing rights, had excluded almost all change, even in directions in which such change was urgently required. Until of late both universities had in great measure retained their character as schools for the clergy, formerly of the Roman and now of the Anglican church, whose instruction laymen might also share in so far as it could serve the general education of the mind; they were subjected to such a control and mode of life as was formerly considered to be good for young priests. They lived, as they still live, in college, under the superintendence of a number of older...
...department of English and to enlarge the opportunities offered to those who wish to perfect themselves in the writing of modern English. It has been said for some time that there is a strong party in the board of overseers who are in favor of directing a larger share of attention in the arrangement of the curriculum to the exact and comprehensive study of our mother tongue. However this may be, it is certain that the department of modern English and of theme instruction in the college is very much in need of reorganizing or of strengthening in some manner...
...must be reminded of what the two representative teams will have at stake, and they ought thus to judge for themselves what the nature of the work demanded of them is to be. The whole college stands ready to aid them with its encouragement and support, for they must share with them the victory or defeat which is to come. May '87 see their responsibility in time, and by improving on the good work done by '86 last year mat they succeed in again bringing the class championship to Harvard...
...calling in vain for skill men. But on the contrary it will be found that they are over supplied, as the times are, and willing mechanics every now and then have to wait for employment. It is also a fact that colleges and college-bred men have done their share in performing the only really effective work that is being done at all-as it seems to some-to improve the condition of mechanics and handicraftsmen, and in placing them in their right relation to the social body, and establishing this relation on solid foundations. And how ? By inculcating broad...
...hardly enter a room where there is a collection of fellows without finding grumbling, in one of its many phases, the main basis of conversation. The faculty, poor prospects for foot ball, base ball and the Glee club, and Princeton hard luck, all come in for their share of abuse...