Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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PHOTO COM.ALL members of the University who have at any time been connected with Phillips Academy, Andover, are asked to meet in Wadsworth 14 on Friday evening, March 8, at 7 o'clock to consider the question of forming a Phillips Andover Club...
...drawing gave F. W. Nichols, '92, first prize; F. M. Brown, '90, second, and S. W. Sturgis, '90, third. The games among these players have been so even that several attempts to play off the tie resulted in one victory and one defeat for each man. So much time has been consumed in these matches the only practicable means of finishing the tournament seemed an appeal to chance...
...instruction given in the American colleges in 1789 was by no means advanced. We can see how it was with Harvard from the change of curriculum effected in 1787. Up to that time the Latin and Greek provided had consisted of Virgil Cicero's Orations and the Greek Testament. By the changes made in 1787 the students were to read in Latin, Horace, Sallust and Cicero "de Oratore;" and in Greek, Xenophon and Homer. Even this was not a more advanced curriculum than that of the best preparatory schools of the present time. The study of mathematics was probably...
...that time there existed thirty-one academies, and eighteen colleges. Of the colleges, four were in New England: Dartmouth in New Hampshire, Harvard in Massachusetts, Brown in Rhode Island, Yale in Connecticut. New York had old Kings College, the name of which had since the Revolution been changed to Columbia College. New Jersey had Rutgers for the Dutch Reformed, and Princeton for the Presbyterians. In Pennsylvania there were the University of Pennsylvania and Dickinson College. Of the nine southern colleges, five were in Maryland; they were St. John's College at Annapolis, Georgetown College, now in the District of Columbia...
...Yale Freshman Crew, as they rowed on the harbor for the first time Saturday morning, was composed of the following men: 1, Jones, '91, S.; 2, Balliet, 3, Kidd; 4, W. Haskell; 5, Crosby; 6, Thompson; 7, Ryle; 8, Swayne. Donnelly, '89, acted as coach...