Word: suite
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first step in the conversion of Harvard from a conventional American college into a university of originality of plan and broad scope. Ever since that system was adopted the energies of this institution have been largely devoted to an adjustment of the several parts of the old system to suit the changed conditions of the new. What is to be the next great change in this process of growth is somewhat doubtful. The entire relegation of the arguer part of the work of the freshman year to the preparatory schools is avowedly one of these changes, but one which will...
...commission which has been taking testimony in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, relative to the value of Cornell University lands, in the suit to break the will of Jennie McCraw-Fiske, shows that the university has a good deal of land out there, though the cash value of the timber on it is not tremendous...
...founded on the blindest faith in the superiority of Harvard's position. This faith we cannot share in. We do not see any reason why it will be found impossible for Princeton, who expresses herself in favor of reasonable reforms and restrictions in athletics to adopt such reforms to suit her own needs and then arrive at a satisfactory convention with Yale and Brown by which inter-collegiate athletics can be continued at these colleges under reasonable restrictions, and all this without entering into the new agreement with Harvard and the rural colleges. In this event we see no outcome...
...damages resulting from the collision near Charleston, Ind. The club will be paid as an organization $1,200, $450 for expenses and $750 for losses. Bowen, who had his nose and an arm broken, will get $1000. Cutten and Sandford, who were bruised will receive $200 each. The suit against the road has been withdrawn...
Miss Sadie Hall, a woman of thirty-five or forty, has brought suit against the editors of the Wooster Collegian, the organ of the University of Wooster, for libeling her good name and character, placing the amount of damages at $100,000. In several numbers of the Collegian, the editors have spoken somewhat ironically of Miss Hall and her actions, and she proposes to get pecuniary satisfaction, if the law will give it to her. At several sittings of the grand jury she attefor criminal libel, but failed each time...