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...magnitude of this beneficiary aid, I doubt if people generally understand, and I have accordingly takes pains to ascertain what was the amount given away this year. I find that to undergraduates alone it was $36,000; to members of the graduate department, $11,000; and to the professional schools, $6,000; making a total of assistance to students of the University of more than $53,000. Next year this enormous sum will be increased $13,000 by the munificent bequest of Mr. Price Greenleaf. Fully to estimate the position of the poor man at Harvard, we should take into...
There is no better way to ascertain in what favor Harvard is held by young men preparing for college in the different localities of this country than by a comparison of the statistics of the various freshman classes. It has been the custom of the CRIMSON for several years to collect these statistics in order to find out the rise or decline of Harvard influence in the different states, cities and above all, the large preparatory schools of the United States. To begin with, below will be found a list of the number of the men who have entered...
...EVENING POST: Sir-The popular sentiment in America upon the Irish question is well known. The popular sentiment in England is about the same as that in the United States; but there the student opinion is diametrically opposed to the popular notion. It was with a desire to ascertain whether the America students agree with the American masses or with the English students upon this "burning question" that Mr. Bryce has written to Dr. H. B. Adams...
...Treasurer Morgan showed that our treasury had been badly depleted by the Oxford race expenses, and that it would be very hard work raising the funds necessary to defray the expenses of a trans-Atlantic trip. Therefore, before any propositions were made to Harvard, it was thought proper to ascertain the cost of the trip...
...some means of association and acquaintance with those already well started on a career in this city. A meeting place for Harvard men visiting the city was also regarded as a desirable thing. Accordingly the matter was referred to the executive committee last fall. Pains were taken to ascertain the general sentiment of the club, which proved to be very favorable, and finally a house was taken. The club has just been incorporated and newly organized, and at the annual meeting, which takes place at Delmonico's next Friday evening, it will be fairly launched on its new career...