Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Mary Anderson says that Boston audiences are the most enthusiastic toward...
...freshmen, we understand, have subscribed very liberally toward the support of their nine. When their manager first went around soliciting subscriptions, the prospects of getting enough money to run the nine successfully looked exceedingly dubious. After a good deal of urging, however, the freshmen have at last subscribed as large an amount as could reasonably be expected. Subscribing is one thing however, and paying up is another. The nine cannot be sent all over New England on subscriptions alone. We have been requested to ask the freshmen to pay their subscriptions at their earliest convenience, so that when the base...
...nearly approached, or with the knowledge that they have lost their degrees by one per cent. in one single study, as in a late notable instance. Harvard has gone far beyond the strictness of high school methods of marking, but there is yet room for a considerable advance toward a broad university system...
Many remarks have been made lately concerning the apparent change of tone in the Boston papers toward Harvard students. Last year they were wont to treat every little, thoughtless act with the utmost severity, as if it were premeditated, and were intended to shake the peace of the Commonwealth to its very foundation. Last year the freak of the freshmen at Oscar Wilde's lecture would have made the subject of editorials of the bitterest kind, denouncing not only the sixty "bold, bad men," but also the whole college. They now pass lightly over what last year would have been...
...Post, yesterday, spoke editorially of "the disturbance made by a lot of immature, conceited, cubbish, bumptious, and obstreperous boys and young men" at Oscar's lecture. The Post added that the demonstrations of the Yale men toward Oscar were "much more coarse and offensive in their demonstrations than were the young men who tried to take a benefit in Music Hall...