Word: authors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that Harward is extravagant, and after stating that Professor Palmer's estimates are not correct, and that the catalogue is absolutely misleading, presents a new table. The reader, prepared for figures lower than ever, suddenly finds himself confronted by sums double or treble the college estimates; and yet the author declares at the end that he has proved what he set out to. This shows plainly that his views of expenses are more liberal than those of Professor Palmer, the college authorities, or indeed the general public. Moreover, the evident lack of material for computation makes the tables less valuable...
...have declared it worthy of a prize, has been raised, but cannot be answered. In the statements in the editorial of last Monday in regard to the opening of the envelope, we erred through following false information. The judges could not have discovered the name or status of the author of the essay in question by "opening the sealed letter which accompanied it." That letter was not in their possession, for judges are wisely not allowed to handle these sacred documents. Thus they had not the Annex essay, they had not the sealed letter, and they could not "give...
...annually. The thing to be considered is not the maximum prize but the chance of success. Literature is comparatively free from the risks of failure to which the merchant is exposed. The young clergyman, lawyer, or physician often has a hard struggle to earn his daily bread but an author who is even decently equipped rarely spends the year without earning something. The profession of literature is very attractive, and contains more men who love their work than any other. The fame of an author is far-reaching, and extends wherever there are active intellects. In this...
...conditions for the admission examinations were as follows:- "Whoever shall be able to read Cicero or any other such like classical author at sight and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose, and decline perfectly the paradigms of names and verbs in the Greek tongue. Let him then and not before be capable of admission into the college." It was certainly a higher standard in the classics than we have at the present day, for there are very few who can speak and write Latin with ease and correctness. Weekly declamation were held on Fridays during the college...
Professor Asa Gray by his will made the following bequests to Harvard College: "All copyrights of books of which he was the author, all engravings of plants, pictures of trees, herbs, etc., and all portraits of botanists." These are to be left in the possession of his wife during life, when they shall go to the herbarium of the college...