Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Beginning with the fall of 1891, no person over twenty-one will be allowed to compete for scholarships at Cornell, nor can any one compete a second time...
...past year both the Harvard and Yale libraries have been used more extensively than ever before. From September 1, 1888, to August 31, 1889, there were 69,892 volumes taken from Gore hall alone. This does not include those taken out for one night only. During the same time 10,21 volumes were taken from the Yale university library. The Yale News contains the following summary of the way in which these volumes were distributed...
Professor D. G. Lyon of the Semitic department will lecture before the Yale Semitic club some time this year...
...reflection will be enough to convince any fair-minded man of the injustice of such a state of affairs in a university of the size and pretentions of Harvard. It is detrimental to the students in more than one way for it encourages idleness among them at the same time that it deprives them of that which is their due. In the past the reserved book privilege has been pointed out as an answer to our requests, but the reseryed book privilege is far from being a full substitute for the right withheld. Suppose, for example, that a student...
...surmounted with a marble statue of the Saviour. On either side of the main entrance are the two receiving parlors. For one of these Bishop Keane, the rector, has already received a magnificent painting of Pope Leo XIII. The large public hall in which lectures will be given from time to time by distinguished Catholics, is situated in the south west corner, and accommodates 250 people. The marble statue of the Virgin Mary which was presented by Mme. La Roux of Paris, has been placed in the corridor, near the entrance to the chapel. The English Catholics at Rome have...