Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opening exercises of the term, President McCosh, of Princeton College, took occasion to deliver a long harangue against athletic sports as at present practiced in colleges. The good doctor asserted that an undue amount of attention was paid to athletic sports as compared with the proper studies of the course, and that a reform in this particular was earnestly to be desired. He, therefore, urgently requested that less attention be paid to outdoor sports and more to books. Dr. McCosh, like his learned brother the Rev. Howard Crosby does not believe in developing the muscles as well as the brain...
...inhabitants from all escape, and a loss of forty or fifty lives would be the certain result. Now let us take the smaller number, and let us suppose that, on the average, they are half through their college course. The amount the deceased would have paid in term bills is forever lost to the College, - a trifle (excluding interest) of $12,000. To this must be added the rents they might have paid for other College rooms, the endowments they might have given for new Law Schools, and the amount the Bursar might have charged them for damage to their...
This is the last day for paying the term bills...
...Cornell, two unexcused absences in any term of studies of two hours or less per week, and three unexcused absences in studies of more than two hours per week, will exclude a student from examination in that study at the end of the term...
...with the laboratory and a stone pier will contain aquaria holding anything from microscopic forms to sharks. Expenses will be borne by the government. The plan will probably be working by the summer of 1885. A series of scientific lectures is projected for the lyceum of natural history next term...