Word: careers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...published in this year's catalogue. The freshman class is fully a third as large again as the entrance classes of ten years ago. In the college alone there is a gain of 124 students over last year. These facts attest that the prosperity which has marked Harvard's career in the past is not yet on the wane, and that we may look forward to the time when our classes will equal in numbers those of the large English universities. The number of scholarships has been largely increased by recent bequests, and we can assert with greater truth than...
...field of ecclesiastical history was a very wide one; it was simply that he, an ecclesiastic, taught general history. I should be very loath to say that this professorship was the first introduction of history into our curriculum: but I do not know that the earlier stages of its career have ever been traced...
...Swan's Secret" is an interesting tale of the downward career of an Italian noble in the guise of a revolutionist. There is a pathetic current running through it, and the individuality of the writer is at times strongly marked. The idea of introducing the swans at the end of the story is a very happy...
Harpers Young Folks will, in a coming issue, contain a picture of Beecher, of Yale, and the account of his foot-ball career...
...sporting element" here no doubt does our athletics and our moral tone serious evil and it is right that an outcry should be made against it. Men will make wagers until doomsday, it may be urged, but still when we appreciate that the custom is injuring our athletic career we are culpable if we do not frown upon it. For what consequence is our little excitement in comparison with the cause of an honorable course on the athletic field? We believe with Mr. Wendell on this subject as we did on the former, this a reform by the students...