Word: succinctly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...laughable experience in a country store. A charming bit of verse from the French of Fontaney is the work of Mr. E. T. Parsons, Rochester, '86. The reports of several banquets held by the fraternity evidence the flourishing condition of the organization. Mr. Fraser, the Harvard editor, gives a succinct sketch of the condition of the Harvard Chapter of the D. U., together with other interesting news. We are informed that library is to be lighted, and that the D. U. Society is safely and comfortably esconed in a hall of its own. The report represents the society as existing...
Progress gives a succinct statement of the question of co-education : "I cannot understand why women or girls and those who speak for them should want co-education. There are colleges and schools for girls nearly equal in every respect to the best of those for boys. If these girls' colleges continue to fall short of the standard of the highest universities it must be because it is not deemed well that exactly similar education be given both sexes. I do not assert that the education of a girl should be inferior to that of a boy, but I think...
...project has met with more opposition than we had anticipated. Old and wise men have frowned upon it; private prejudices have operated against it," say the editors in their introduction. A succinct history, many will admit, of the beginnings of many similar student enterprises. A writer of a review article in one of the first pages gives a rather forcible statement of the condition of instruction at the college at that time. He says: "Educated in the old manner, and whipped, from our earliest days, into an acquaintance with the languages, mythologies and histories of the ancient nations, we have...