Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English writer says, concerning the influence of the women's colleges at Oxford and Cambridge: "The sweet 'girl-graduate,' flourishing as that race appears to be, has not yet so fully taken possession of our universities as to render feminine society and girlish voices every-day adjuncts of college life; and perhaps their very rarity in those monastic precincts goes far to increase the charm which their presence undoubtedly adds to the otherwise sombre surroundings...
...last number the Miscellany discusses the proposition for an Intercollegiate Press Association, and in its discussion displays its usual acuteness and "sweet reasonableness," surpassing in these respects any of the suggestions in the matter previously advanced by any of the original advocates of the scheme. The suggestions it makes are certainly novel, but well worthy of consideration. The objects of the association, it says, it understands would be as follows: "First, the elevation of the tone of college journalism, not only by the mental friction among the magazines and papers enlisted in the association from the first...
...American college of high or low degree has a right to disregard. The sooner Harvard University admits women upon exactly the same terms with Oxford the better for her reputation for intelligence and usefulness. Meanwhile, if any generous person proposes to endow the annex, he may well consider the sweet reasonableness of waiting until the system is adjusted upon the principles of sound common sense. Instead of providing funds to pay the professors for their extra lectures, the just and wise course would be to endow a hall of residence, and let the university reward its instructors. - [N. Y. Tribune...
...ultimate result following in the line of progress that Harvard may in the course of time be forced to yield to the pressure from without, and adopt this reform. That such an event is in the near future we do not believe, and it is possible that the "sweet reasonableness of waiting" for this change may, after all, find itself in the pleasant future gazing upon a delusive vacuity of non-realization of its beloved scheme. That co-education does (perhaps very properly) assert its existence at other colleges is not an argument for its adoption at all - at Harvard...
...YORK, Nov. 18th, 1882. - Columbia may well be called the Rip Van Winkle of American universities, for she surely has fallen into a sleep from which there are no signs of her waking before a great deal of the sweet bye-and-bye has become part of the happy long ago. Everything seems to have come to a standstill. Foot-ball, for which the fall regatta was abandoned that it might occupy all our attention, seems to take it out in occupying. The cricket club is non est, and cannot attract enough attention to get up a decent funeral. Base...