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Word: seriousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Brown University will suffer a serious loss in the resignation of its president, Dr. E. G. Robinson, who will withdraw from the presidency of the University at the end of the present college year. Dr. Robinson is now 74 old and during his whole life has been very active. He is still remarkably powerful, physically and mentally, but feels that the fullest development of the college requires the services of a younger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Resignation of President Robinson. | 3/5/1889 | See Source »

Themes are to be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 not later than 4 o'clock. By the regulations, no overdue theme will be accepted unless the writer satisfies the secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 3/2/1889 | See Source »

...American colleges as a moral influence will wish it had been made by the faculty rather than by the overseers. That the faculty should be overborne on a matter of discipline by an outside body having no share in the management, is certainly calculated to aggravate the most serious defect of our collegiate system. Nothing does so much to prevent a "collegiate education" as it is called, in our day and generation, leaving marked and lasting effects on the character and tastes of young men who graduate, as the low esteem in which they hold the professor-that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York Post on College Discipline at Harvard. | 2/26/1889 | See Source »

Themes are to be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 not later than 4 o'clock. By the regulations, no over-due theme will be accepted unless the writer satisfies the secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 2/23/1889 | See Source »

Themes are to be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 not later than 4 o'clock. By the regulations, no overdue theme will be accepted unless the writer satisfies the secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 2/16/1889 | See Source »

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