Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college men more than the professions, law, ministry, medicine, journalism, teaching. Let us hope that every one of these professions is to be discussed from the platform in Sever 11 by as able men as the Rev. Phillips Brooks and the Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who are to speak on the "Ministry" and "Law as a Profession." We predict that Sever 11 will find itself more than ever unsuited to be the place of a popular course of lectures. The first two speakers are men of such note that we wonder that it was not announced that they would...
...order that a man can read with intelligence the record of the present. There should be some one to point out the relation of what happens to-day to what has happened in the past; to amplify and explain this connection which newspapers either pass over entirely or speak of only in a misleading and blind...
President McCosh is endeavoring to elevate Princeton to the scale of a university. The excellent opportunities which are now afforded students of that college to pursue post-graduate courses, especially in philosophy, speak well for the undertaking. The progress which has been made in systems of study almost necessitate university methods. Any college, however prosperous, which neglects the tendencies to an enlarged scope of work and persists in purely college work, cannot reasonably hope for distinguished success or marked progress. The more collegiate study is elevated in its facilities and methods the broader will be the scholarship evolved. A university...
Arrangements are making by the Shakspere Club for a series of lectures in Sanders Theatre. Lawrence Barrett, Franklin Sargent, Henry Ward Beecher, and Henry A. Clapp, dramatic critic on the Boston Advertiser, have been invited to speak...
...make it a waste paper basket for the 'Century.' The Lampoon, the only true illustrated paper in the college world, compares most favorably with professional productions of the same nature. The fact that it has succeeded where so many before and since have failed, speak more for its merit than any number of high encomiums could possibly...