Word: epoch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Jared Sparks' professorship at Harvard was epoch-making for American history rather than for historical teaching. It was understood from the outset that his chief energy was to be expended in lectures to the senior and junior classes. He himself says of his appointment: 'Mr. Quincy said it was not proposed that I should have anything to do in the way of teaching by recitation from books, occasional examinations and lectures were proposed. For anything else I am not responsible. Let the tutor drill the boys.' Every college professor of history will sympathize with Mr. Sparks' view and be glad...
...first number of the Epoch, a new weekly published in New York, has appeared. It contains a large number of interesting and well-written articles, contributed by men of no less distinction than Carl Schurz, Mr. Stedman and Prof. Boyesen. The editorials are written in a conservative spirit, and treat the great questions of the day in a sensible, moderate way. The book notices are particularly copious and well done. If the Epoch continues as it has begun, the editors may feel confident of having supplied a need that was felt in the journalistic world...
...interest. It was altogether the most scholarly, artistic, complete and interesting procession that I have ever seen. It was intended to represent, as by a living panorama, the history of the university and city for the last five hundred years; and it certainly succeeded in bringing back those past epochs with startling vividness. There came a sudden clatter of mounted police, then a snarling of antique trumpets, and Lo! the hands on the dial of time swept suddenly back, all the harsh realism of the nineteenth century vanished, and the age of romance was with us once more. The year...
...coming anniversary celebration will mark an epoch in the history of the college. The celebration of fifty years ago marked the beginning of great changes in the constitution of Harvard, which only with this year have reached their full development. Now at last the college has been transformed. And I hope it is not with idle pride that we now believe it to be the most liberal in its advantages, the most complete, the best American university. And yet the change is not so great as is often thought. In my day even we already had the elective system...
...stake, and others resort to more hilarious performances. At Vassar the middle of the sophomore year closes the study of trigonometry and is also the end of the prescribed course, and the students thereafter are permitted to elect what branches they will pursue. It is therefore an important epoch in college life, and the "Trig Ceremonies" are always made the occasion of a general celebration by the sophomores, who invite the freshmen to attend and take warning by their experience. The usual chief event is a play, more or less appropriate to the occasion...