Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Joseph Cook comes down like a wolf on the fold and it is hard to tell where he next will light. There is scarcely any institution of note in this country which has not suffered from the stings and arrows of the outrageous Monday Lectureship, and Harvard least of all has been exempt from its attacks. The latest sufferer, however, is the University of Leyden, the students of which have been accused of the grossest immorality by Mr. Cook. Strange to say this accusation is indignantly denied by the rector of the university. But little weight, however, can be attached...
...Columbia Lacrosse team is composed of the following named men: Waldbridge, point; Cox, cover point; Griffith, right defence; Van Cott, left defence; Dusenberry, first defence; Clements, centre; Huntington, first home; Channing, second home; Jones, left home; Pipinsky, right home; Wolf, home; Carrere, goal. Our correspondent writes: "The team men say that the prospects for this season are better than ever before." "One word as to the general sentiment towards lacrosse-nearly every one is opposed to the game, and all refuse to support the team...
...said the lecturer, before the Declaration of Independence, nine colleges - Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, King's or Columbia, the University of Pensylvania, Brown, Dartmouth, and Queen's or Rutgers. The church element entered largely into them all. A wonderful fact was the establishment of Harvard when the wolf was still at its doors. The founders of those colonial colleges were animated with the desire to provide learned ministers, learned laymen and to educate the Indians, and with a love of higher education for its own sake. The methods attending their establishment were typified in the building of Harvard...
...following is posted in the library: "The gentleman who took a dark felt hat from the library April 3d, can get his own at 5 De Wolf street, after...
...Simon Wolf, consul-general at Cairo, has forwarded to Treasurer Gilfillan another contribution of f.3800 to the Garfield memorial hospital, making in all $1200 collected by him from the khedive and others in Egypt...