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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nature which science was the only means of cultivating. Our present system of secondary education demanded, it seemed to him, the careful and serious attention of parents, and, if not watched, would constitute a real danger for the country. He observed that Balliol College and New College, to whose co-operation they were so greatly indebted, had very wisely made it a condition that the instruction which they gave should be literary as well as scientific. He could say, "Would that all our education was scientific as well as literary." There, however, at any rate...
...piercing eyes gave him a weird aspect, and he passed his days and nights in one corner of a college dormitory in lone communion with the spiders which he was wont to feed and cherish, and the tomes in which the lore of old Hellas was entombed, many of whose graces and beauties were visible to no eye within the academic shades as they were to his. Reserved and uncommunicative as a recluse, he had a few chosen friends with whom he loved to talk of his favorite studies. About the college grounds he moved shyly, as if trying...
...approaching departure from that city in the following words. "A farewell assembly will be held in his honor at an early day, in the Hopkins Library. During his residence in Baltimore Professor Sylvester has given an extraordinary impulse to the study of mathematics; having taught a number of pupils whose services have been sought for at Harvard in the East, and the University of California in the Wesh, and at many intermediate points. Among them are Story, Craig, and Franklin, now in Johns Hopkins; Marston, of Baltimore; Gore, lately of the University of Virginia and now in the University...
...disable a prominent player if necessary to win the game. Mr. J. H. McIntosh, '84, opened for the negative. He drew an elaborate simile between the government of a state and the government of a faculty, and said that athletics were out of the control of the faculty, whose only duty was to aid the university in the promotion of its one aim-science. Mr. E. L. Conandt, '84, in approving the action of the faculty showed how the river and Jarvis field, which should be for the use of all, had been given...
...surely the latter are not to blame. The form of cheering adopted by any college is its distinctive possession and invaluable birthright. The practice forms one of the most cherished of college customs, and he who would attempt to stamp it out is but a tyrant and an innovator, whose conduct could only arouse abhorrence in all right-thinking minds. Besides we are inclined to think that the popular cheer is not so much influenced by the peculiar forms of college cheers as the Times would imply, and that its growing short, sharp and brittle sound is merely the result...