Word: transcripts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last Friday's Transcript appeared a long communication criticising the studies pursued at the Harvard Divinity School...
Saturday evening's edition of the Transcript contained a very vigorous, forcible and almost violent communication, protesting against the abolishment of foot ball. The writer says at the close: "Probably the next step will be to have the inter-collegiate boat-races conducted with steam launches, because "brutal" strength is needed at the oar. Is it a pleasant prospect that not game should be allowed except those that girls can have part in, and will it improve our race. "The puny weaklings who would be exterminated in a natural state of society will taken the a affirmative...
...matter of morning prayers is an absolutely just one. They ask no more than is perfectly right and proper, that men of age should attend at prayers only at their own discretion, and that for boys under age the discretion of their parents or guardians should decide. -[Transcript...
...students and scholars this will always remain a fruitful theme for discussion, and especially to those upholders of the American claim to superiority residing at the "Hub of the Universe" and classic shades of neighboring Cambridge. The Transcript in an interesting article carries on the discussion in an able manner...
...used is a sort of mongrel composed of English and Latin. If we cannot have pure Latin we can at least have pure English. In English there would also be a uniformity which is at present sadly lacking in the language used in the catalogue. A correspondent of the Transcript thus sums up the inconsistency of the translator : "It is positively unpardonable that Ensign Man should stand unchanged, when it can be exactly translated by Signifier Homo. The translator neglects also to turn the given name Cotton into Gossipium, Penn into Stylus, Prince into Princeps, True into Verus, Clark into...