Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fourteen New England colleges-Amherst, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brown, Colby, Dartmouth, Harvard, Smith, Trinity, Tufts, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams and Yale-have now joined the Commission on Admission Examinations, formed three years ago. This body consists of one member from the faculty of each college represented, and its excellent work is apparent in the advanced standard required in the recent catalogues of New England colleges in the requirements in English literature, which are now uniform in them all. The commission is now considering the subject of modern languages, and a higher proficiency in those branches also will probably be required. This...
...Wesleyan Argus speaks in terms of highest praise of Dr. Bradford P. Raymond, who has formally accepted the presidency of Wesleyan, and will enter upon his new duties at the beginning of the next college year. It says: "The new president is a leader among Western Methodists and is not wholly unknown in the east. He is about 40 years old and for several years has been president of Lawrence University, at Appleton, Wis. Those who know Dr. Raymond best have given him the warmest endorsement. Personally he is said to be a man whom student and faculty...
...John Fiske, of Cambridge, lectured recently at Wesleyan of Nation Building." The Wesleyan Argus announce the lecturer as "Prof. John Fiske, of Harvard...
...Monday evening the annual meeting of the Boston Alumni Association of Wesleyan College was held at the Revere House, sixty members of the association being present. An informal reception was held at 6 o'clock, and at 7 the party sat down to dinner, which was presided over by Geo. L. Roberts. Rev. David H. Ela, D. D., of Chelsea, officiated as toastmaster. President Van Vleet, of Wesleyan University, and Professors Prentice and Merrill of the same institution were the guests of the evening. The election of officers resulted in the choice of many of the old board, as follows...
...graduate advisory committee of the intercollegiate football association met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on Saturday evening. The following men were present: R. M. Hodge, of Princeton, chairman; W. S. Camp, of Yale; H. H. Beatty, of Wesleyan; and W. S. Harvey, of Pennsylvania. Harvard was not represented. The championship for 1888 was awarded to Yale without protest...