Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Jowett, Master of Balliol College, and better known to the American public through his fascinating translations of Plato and Thucydides, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. This fact gains interest as marking another step towards freedom of thought in the great centre of British conservatism. Counted by years it is not long since Mr. Jowett, having been excluded from the university pulpit, was threatened with prosecution for heresy, and denied his legitimate salary of professor of Greek. Now, without any change of opinion on his part, he has been appointed to the highest active office...
...college is threatened with a direful catastrophe. At the last meeting of the H. C. Goodies' Benevolent Association, the prevailing low price of wages was vigorously discussed, and by many it was thought that the only refuge from the present distressing condition of affairs for the guild lay in a general strike. Prudent council finally prevailed, not, however, before very emphatic dissent from the policy of conciliation was expressed by not a few. The dissatisfied ones subsequently met in secret session, and these discussed their wrongs long and earnestly. A plan of proceeding was hit upon and agreed...
...many," to win her games "by sheer force and systematic evasions of the rules." Vox populi, vox dei. "The many" have not been deceived. The editor goes on to state, that Yale has done more for foot-ball than any other college in the land. We always thought that Harvard introduced the game; but, perhaps, there has been some mistake. That Yale's rules for stopping the block game were adopted, is true. But Princeton presented precisely the same rules, with certain additions, which would have entirely prevented...
...allowing the Yale race to take a place of secondary importance, by making our race with Columbia the principal object of our training, is pure, unadulterated nonsense. It is to beat Yale that we subscribe our money and give up our leisure hours to training. Who ever has thought of the Columbia race as anything but an exceedingly subordinate affair? We believe that we express the true sentiments of the college and university at large when we say that the Yale race should be rowed under any reasonable consideration, and that the Columbia race should not be rowed if there...
...condition of Hon. Lot M. Morrill has not materially changed up to last evening. It is thought he cannot live but a short time...