Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Frank W. Nicholson, A. M., has prepared an edition of the "Phormio" of Terence, with stage directions, and John C. Rolfe, Ph. D., has prepared a similar edition of the "Heauton Timorumens" of Terence, which Ginns and Co. have just issued...
...grade to notice the number of seminaries and conferences which, according to the calendar, take place here this week. Last evening there were important meetings in the Modern Language, History and Science departments at which the results of advanced individual research were presented and discussed. Tonight there is a similar meeting in the Geological department, while in numerous other ones, such as in that of Classical Philology and of Philosophy, though the regular meetings are not announced in the calendar, the seminary work constantly done is of high grade. A continual comparison of the calendar with the corresponding numbers...
...with the present low standard of requirements for admission to Harvard. To quote his own words: "In consequence of their flexibility, and of the provision for maxima and minima. many a student now enters Harvard College who cannot pass the entrance examinations at Yale, Brown, Amherst, Wesleyan and similar colleges." For all this no proposition has been made to increase the requirements for admission. He argues that since in the new course as well as in the old a student may go through college and get an A. B. without knowing ancient or modern languages, mathematics, history or philosophy...
...entrance examinations at Yale, Brown, Amherst, etc.," the writer of the letter says that at his school the preparation for no college is so severe as that for Harvard. He also says that many a tutor will engage to fit a boy for Brown. Amherst or any of the "similar colleges" in one year less than he will engage to fit a boy for Harvard or Yale. He ends by citing an instance of a student who had passed the admission examinations to Boston University, but who decided to go to Harvard, studied another year, and then failed to pass...
...very serious accident at the Yale-Princeton game yesterday is an illustration, if one were needed, of the dangers of having seats and grand stands insecurely built. At the Harvard-Yale game at Springfield there came very near being a similar accident, in my opinion. The seats near the centre of the Harvard side, to the north, where I was, got swaying so badly near the end of the game that everybody left the upper rows. It would have taken very little more to bring the whole thing down-I think another touch-down for Harvard would have done...