Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yesterday's issue we published a lengthy communication advocating the formation of an amateur photographic society amongst the students at Harvard. The writer states that a few years ago such a club was in existence, and that it was in a flourishing condition, but that of late, for reasons unexplained, it has entirely disappeared. All that we can say in this matter is that it is to be regretted that the spirit of indifference, formerly so characteristic of everything pertaining to Harvard, should still linger in a few cases, and that a society which has proven itself so useful...
...battle with the best amateur teams of England, Scotland and Ireland. The '84 team played seventeen games in all, winning nine, losing four and drawing four, and barring a crushing defeat at the hands of the celebrated Marylebone Club, generally known as the "M. C. C.," which numbers amongst its three thousand and more members, (almost every amateur cricketer of note in England), the record of the team was very creditable. The most notable victory of the Philadelphians was that over the Gentlemen of Gloucestershire whom they defeated by seven wickets. The county was represented by its best amateurs including...
...bound volumes added to the University Library during the year, 10,885 were added to Gore Hall. 4027 to the Divinity School, 677 to the Law School and the rest scattered amongst the various departments. These accessions are the largest on record, and surpass the number of volumes added during the academic year 1886-87 by about 4,500 volumes. The present extent of the University Library is 343,318 bound volumes, and 276,682 pamphlets...
When it was announced last year that Mr. Clark intended to establish and endow a university in Worcester, Mass., a great deal of anxiety amongst the officers of the leading New England colleges was the result. Newspapers also took up the matter, and the current opinion was that Mr. Clark could have made a better disposition of his wealth by giving it to some college or university already well-established, than by founding a new university. Again some leading educators said that it was not fair to Amberst, nor to Brown, nor in fact to Harvard, to establish...
...Lovering's numerous friends assembled at the Vendome Hotel in Boston to observe in a fitting manner the fiftieth anniversary of Professor Lovering's connection with Harvard as professor of physics. The affair consisted of a reception and banquet and was highly successful. About two hundred guests were present, amongst them being naturally many Harvard professors. President Eliot presided, and speeches were made by the following gentlemen: Professor Joseph Lovering, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dr. George E. Ellis, Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, Dr. A. P. Peabody, General Charles Devens, Col. T. W. Higginson, Professor W. W. Goodwin, Augustus Lowell, Professor...