Word: sortes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...learn that the Dining Association is to have a "headship" given it. At least the New York Post says: "A sort of headship will be given the association by bringing the records and the direction of affairs to a centre in one apartment...
...system of complete co-education, still such institutions as the Harvard Annex and Girton, young as they are, have proved that the opposition urged to the higher education of women must soon be a thing of the past. The general impression seems to be that Columbia will make some sort of provision for women, and we hope soon to be able to welcome at least a Columbia "Annex...
...door freedom and the absence of severe manual labor are combined. In this connection he remarked that, for a college student of the present day to spend his summer vacation working on a farm during haying and harvesting, and all the time subjecting a body unaccustomed to this sort of work to a continued strain, was in the highest degree injurious, as although our forefathers may have done it with impunity, the physical powers of the student of the present generation do not compare with those of the student of the former. In regard to the best time for exercise...
...correspondent has written us asking why the meeting room at the gymnasium is kept locked and if there is any way of getting into it. The room in question has been in the past frequented by numbers of small boys who were making a sort of club-room of it. To prevent this it was found necessary to keep it locked. Any one, however, who wishes to be admitted to it can obtain a key by applying at the office of the gymnasium or to any of the attendants...
...laid open the minutest details of her administration to the public scrutiny, and thus has invited public confidence. The result of this has been the numerous bequests that have been bestowed upon her during the past. Men of wealth feel greater readiness in endowing an institution of this sort than one where the whole government is kept a close secret. And the fact that Harvard is demanding more money is no indication of weakness, but, on the contrary, to quote the Advertiser, this demand is "but a gauge of its progress and an indication of its healthy expansion...