Word: 250th
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scale of college salaries has not changed since 1869, although the class of teachers called instructors have been paid at a higher rate within recent years than they were formerly. The year 1886-87 will be memorable for the successful celebration in November, 1886, of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College. It will also be remembered as the first year in which the University received gifts to the amount of more than a million of dollars...
...last number of part one, the beautiful selection, played so well at the celebration concert of the 250th anniversary, was given with almost greater success last evening...
...give cups to the winners in the fall scratch races, seems to have been given up this year. It seems an especial pity that this should be so, because, as every one knows, the scratch races made up a part of the 250th anniversary celebration and so, to those who have no other trophy of the great anniversary, the cups would be of double value. Therefore I suggest that the H. U. B. C. get the cups at once and also that they have the cups - as prizes won during the celebration of the 250th anniversary of our college - appropriately...
Poor old Harvard seems to be getting it on all sides just now to pay up for the good time she had during the 250th Anniversary. During that brief period of sweetness and light, enough good things were said about her and enough flattery was bestowed upon her to have turned the head of any less sensible old lady. But she only smoothed her dress a bit, put a new crimson ribbon on her cap, and blushed with modest pride...
...Public Orator at Cambridge has written an address of congratulation in Latin, to Harvard University, on the 250th anniversary of the latter's foundation. At a wine party recently held at Trinity College it was unanimously and hilariously decided that the Undergraduates of England ought to send greeting to the Undergraduates of America at the same time. The following address was at once drawn...