Word: extinctionism
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The loose tenure of the various class funds calls for some provisions. It is suggested that, for example, the Association of the Alumni might furnish from its officers a small body of trustees to hold class funds, to pay the income of each fund to the order of the class...
The halls at Oxford are becoming absorbed in the colleges, in conformity to the scheme of the university commissioners. The principal of St. Alban Hall has placed his resignation of the hall in the hands of the chancellor of Oxford University. By a provision of the Oxford University commissioners, the...
A momentous change has now been inaugurated in the external arrangements and in the inner life of the University of Cambridge. Formerly the university was little more than a name. The individual colleges were everything. Now that is changed. The university is to provide professors at the cost of the...
Experience during a period of ten years with the elective system, shows that the system does not tend to bring about the extinction of the traditional studies called liberal. The scientific turn of mind is comparatively rare among the young men who enter the college, a large majority of the...
Two years ago I gave up this custom in disgust at the adherence of Harvard to the worst faults in rowing. And this is a mild term to use, for I can truly say that I have never seen an individual member of a Harvard crew show that the first...