Word: continental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The dinner held at Young's Tuesday night in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Signet was an unqualified success. There were present about seventy members, old and new. Professor G. L. Kittredge, president of the alumni association, acted as chairman of the dinner. Speeches were...
This morning Harvard University begins the two hundred and fifty-fifth year of its existence. With a glorious record behind it and every prospect of material prosperity ahead the outlook is encouraging in the extreme. Today it will incorporate as a constituent part of itself the largest number of men...
The religious life in the universities is alive and in some vigorous. It is not, however, an inward life, but takes rather the external form, and very much good is done among the poor quarters in the cities. On the Continent it is theoretical rather than practical.
The athletic side of life in the universities abroad is confined mainly to boating, fencing and bicycling. In the English universities football is played also, but not in those on the continent. Indeed in Germany there is a law forbidding it. The English Rugby game differs materially from our game...
A prominent feature of student life on the Continent is the part he plays in politics. In Portugal and Spain they have not unfrequently led riots. In Paris during the Boulanger fever they came out with a declaration against him and in support of the government.