Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The trustees of Columbia College, at a recent meeting, accepted the resignation of President F. A. P. Barnard and appointed a committee to consider nominations to fill the vacancy thus created. Professor Henry Drisler was made Acting President. A letter was received from Professor J. M. Sloan of Princeton, declining...
What has happened to the Elective Pamphlet? It is usual for it to come out early enough in the spring to enable the students to make up their minds fully as to the course of study they wish to pursue during the following year. But now, in the midst of...
"The Present Condition of Economic Science," by Edward C. Lunt, A. M., Harvard, is a concise systematic discussion of the prevalent opposition to the classic school of economics. It points out with clearness the causes for the dissatisfaction many feel with the methods and aims of the English school in...
The New York Tribune contains the following: "Professor Richards on Monday said: 'There is no danger of the overseers of Yale following the example of Harvard in the matter of athletics. Not only do I consider wholesome athletic exercises beneficial but necessary in college life, and the best way to...
"In the first place, the number and kind of athletic contests of all sorts are regulated in advance by the faculty's committee on athletics. If the faculty decide that it is best to have but fifteen intercollegiate contests in a year, they can limit them to that number. The...