Word: younger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Critic, in speaking in a recent issue of freedom of thought, says: "At the present time, the younger professors in all our great colleges are, with few exceptions, evolutionists; but how many of them are there who dare profess themselves such? At Harvard, we believe, no restrictions exist, and a man does not endanger his position by declaring his acceptance of the Darwinian theory. At Cornell, too, there are several avowed evolutionists who are in no real danger of being discharged. But when we except these two, we know of no institutions where a similar freedom of opinion would...
...system, unknown in its original home. If fagging - a custom of which Dr. Arnold of Rugby approved - is not its parent, it is at least its sister evil, since both spring from the propensity of tyranny on the part of the older and stronger over the younger and weaker. But these ancient customs may be esteemed most honorable to the freshman in comparison with the indignities and barbarities which are at the present time occasionally heaped upon him, and which he frequently revenges by insults equally severe upon his persecutors. The past college year witnessed an unusually large number...
JUNIOR THEMES.Theme 1 will be due Tuesday, Oct. 10, in Sever 3, at 2 P. M. Subjects: 1. - "The Hindoo Character." 2. - "Description of a Cyclone." 3. - "The Younger Pitt either as a Statesman, Orator, or Parliamentary Leader." 4. "Origin of the Title of Marquis." 5. "What is Money?" 6. - "A Criticism of Anthony Trollope's Novels...
Junior Themes - Theme I. will be due from the whole class, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2 to 3 P. M., in Sever 3. Subjects: 1. "The Hindoo Character." 2. "Description of a Cyclone." 3. "The younger Pitt, either as Statesman, Orator or Parliamentary Leader...
...year, and all the efforts made since to obtain Professor Kuno Fischer, of Heidelberg, Professor von Goltz, Professor Sigwart, and others have failed. The position is one of the most honorable and remunerative in the country, and the phenomenon is therefore some what peculiar. There are plenty of younger psychologists in Germany, but they are all modern in spirit and convictions, while Berlin is conservative, and still observes the custom, noted by Heine in his day, of keeping all new ideas in quarantine for some years or decades...