Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some days ago the Harvard Classical Club issued an invitation to the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality to give a concert for the benefit of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. It is well known in literary and scientific circles that this school is doing much toward giving American classical scholars a chance to take a position in the world of archaeological and philological research. The fact that Dr. Charles Waldstein has been appointed to the directorship of the school, on condition that a fund of $100,000 is secured, is also well known. It is toward furthering...
...papers for? Are articles written by college officers and outsiders or by students, or by both, the desiderata? These are the two questions, the answer to which - and it will be noticed that an answer to the first is necessary, and sufficient to answer the second - would go far toward setting student publications on a surer basis. The answer, it seems to us, would be that college papers are a receptacle for the literary attempts of the students. Expression of student-opinion and pleasure to the student-readers are objects which fall in under this wider object. For the former...
...Lubeck merchant has bequeathd 300,000 marks to the University of Jena, toward the founding of a Darwinian professorship; Prof. Haeckel, the world-renowned scientist, has the administration of the bequest in his charge. - Tokio Independent...
...never hesitate to berate a freshman class for negligence in what we decide to be its duties toward the college. When it comes to taking sophomores to account we do not become more timid, but the task grows more disagreeable...
With much sagacity, Dr. Waldstein pointed out that the broadening and nationalization of the Greek religion, which men like Peisistratos brought about, the increased prominence of national politics, and the reaction in the mother country of the more unconventional lines of art pursued in the colonies, did much toward freeing Greek sculpture from the bonds of crude conventionalism and orthodox archaism...