Word: stanley
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Butler attended the meeting of the Saturday Night Club of New York last Saturday. After the banquet Judge Stanley Matthews made a brief and witty speech in which he suggested that Harvard College, instead of bestowing the customary degree of LL. D. upon Governor Butler should dub him D. D. Judge Matthews expressed a wish that he might be present upon the occasion of the conferring of the degree, as he thought it likely to be a very festive one. General Butler looked up smilingly and said, "I will be glad to see you there." "Very well," responded the judge...
...symposium on "Educational Needs," by Professor G. Stanley Hall, Professor Felix Adler, President Thomas Hunter and Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi appears in the March number of the North American Review...
...Stanley Hall's last lecture on "Pedagogy," the prevalent system of crowding the mind of the scholar and college student with a mass of ideas for the special purpose of passing an examination was condemned as being hurtful, not only to the mind but also to the body; and the changing of the time of holding the examinations to the winter months, when the mind is active, was favored, instead of having them in the spring when the nervous system in many instances is practically prostrated...
...meeting yesterday the Board of Overseers concurred with the president and fellows in the following appointments: F. A. Walker, lecturer on the tenure of land; G. Stanley Hall, lecturer on pedagogy; and C. P. Parker instructor in Greek and Latin for the current academic year. The board voted that it is not at present expedient to consent to the vote of the president and fellows to assign certain scholarships to special students...
...Yale College Base-Ball Association last week elected officers as follows : President, Charles H. Yates, '83; vice-president, E. H. Skinner, Scientific School, '83; treasurer, Morrison W. Young; secretary, S. A. Booth. The Foot-Ball Association elected the following officers : Stanley Shafer, '83, president; R. W. Hamill, '84, secretary and treasurer...