Word: begun
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...races is at present divided between the Senior and Junior crews, who, as far as can be judged, are very evenly matched. The Sophomores are organizing an eight, to be sure, and expect to take part in the contest; but they were so unlucky in the spring, and have begun to train so late, that they will have hard work to keep up with '80 and '81. The Freshmen, of course, are too inexperienced to take part in the race on the 25th...
...twenty candidates have presented themselves for admission, and among them students from Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, in spite of the fact that those colleges claim to offer to their students all the advantages of Harvard. We take the occasion to report to our Western exchanges, who have already begun to talk about women at "cultivated" Harvard, that the Private College for Women is entirely separate from the College. It is controlled by persons who have no connection with the University, and is merely a means of offering private instruction to women under some of the most eminent professors...
...have received from William Watson, Ph.D., a prospectus of his establishment for giving advanced instruction in engineering and the graphic arts. The system of instruction is the European, which has already begun to attract some attention in this country: but we have never seen it set forth and illustrated with such precision as is done by Dr. Watson in the explanation of his "Studio and Atelier." This school gives such instruction as has been furnished in the past only by the best technical schools of Europe, and uses "many graphical and abridged methods not yet embodied in text-books...
LAWN tennis has begun again...
...managers shall be able to maintain the high character which it has attained. We indorse the opinion that "it will be a desirable change in college journalism when the days of reviews and literary criticism are ended, and a period marked by more original, independent effort is begun," producing "fresh, live essays, filled with their authors' personalities and earnest with their own honest thoughts," even if, now and then, a fledgling, too early venturing upon untried opinions, shall vainly flutter, and fall to the ground...