Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trustees of Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa., are anxious to secure an endowment fund for the college of $100,000. They have recently received toward this $30,000 in seven per cent. bonds given them by Mr. Thomas Beaver of Danville, Pa., an uncle of General Beaver, the Republican candidate for governor...
...Saturday, and easily defeated the Columbia eleven. At the outset of the game the ball was forced down close to Columbia's goal, and it remained there during the entire three quarters. Our men played rather carelessly, and Columbia, by touching back repeatedly, succeeded in keeping the score down. Toward the end of the half Morison broke through the opposng line and scored the first touchdown for Harvard. Columbia had already made seven safeties...
...from this. Taking all these points into consideration, Harvard should become more and more recognized not only as the leading college in the country, which position she already occupies, but as the leading graduate university, a position which the recent action of the faculty will go a considerable way toward securing...
...Inter-collegiate Press Association among the different college journals of the country is, we believe, not altogether a new one. Somewhat over a year ago it was started by the Acta Columbiana. It did not then meet with such favor as to warrant its promoters in taking steps looking toward the realization of the project. It has since, however, come somewhat prominently before the college world, and now seems in a fair way of active discussion, and perhaps of tentative adoption by the more prominent publications of our colleges. The Williams Athenaeum, the Michigan University Argonaut, the Amherst Student...
...benefit that could be derived from the association, there can be no doubt, provided it be organized on the proper basis, and be animated with a sufficiently earnest and definite purpose. Of late years there has been observed a marked tendency toward a better understanding and mutual co-operation in our colleges, both between instructors and students. The New England College Association has greatly promoted this spirit. In other ways our Inter-Collegiate Ball and Boating Associations have had the same tendency. But probably none of these would have a better effect in this way than an inter-collegiate press...