Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There seems to be a good deal of insubordination among college faculties, and in several instances students have been compelled to act with decision and sternness. The Princeton students a short time ago found so much difficulty in enforcing discipline among the professors that they published a statement in regard to the bad conduct of the faculty, in order to array public sentiment against the wrong-doers. The seniors of Hamilton College have been brought face to face with a rebellion on the part of the faculty, and it seems probable that in the end the rebellion will triumph. Only...
...they did." It may be due to our lack of sympathetic appreciation of the true in wardness of the thoughts that flit through the brain of the average Yale editor, but we don't know what the News is talking about, and await with great patience a more lucid statement of the difficulty...
...raised throughout the country. This is held to be the ease, particularly with the graduates of the larger colleges, such as Yale and Harvard. The fact that thirty per cent, of the men chosen by the reading public to represent American literature, received their education at Harvard disproves this statement as far as the graduates of that college are concerned. This result cannot fail to be satisfactory to the graduates of that college, particularly as, with the exception of a few men who were almost unanimously chosen, the votes which elected these men did not come from Harvard...
...currently reported by the press that a "certain Western editor, Proposes to leave his fortune by will to found a chair of practical journalism in some Eastern college,-presumably Harvard or Yale. And although there is a delightful air of vagueness about the statement contained in the words "Western editor" and "fortune" that makes it read after the manner of an old fable, still, like an old fable, it has a moral, and it is of this moral that we propose to say a few words. the whole tone of our colleges is, we think, undergoing a considerable change...
...Reed's next statement is that the Polo Grounds' track is wide enough to start two rows of riders without mishap. Though last year a fall occurred from bad starting, yet the danger is more in the number of riders at one time on the track than the number starting. Besides the starters rarely know their business and dangerous falls are sure to occur if the number of starters is large. Mr. Reed mentions that there is a rule which provides that the race be started again if the starters fall within 10 yards of the start. This rule...