Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...object of the association to send in to every family in distress some one to exert an influence as a friend. An occasional visit, with a careful investigation and a search for a remedy is in general the plan of work. In Boston there is our central office controlling over seven hundred such visitors. There is plenty of work to be done and an infinite variety of problems to be solved, The experience gained will help men to grapple with the problems of life which every educated man must meet...
...gentlemen who bought the wrong maps of Central and Western Europe at Sever's, can exchange them if they are in good condition...
William H. Manning, Harvard '82 and his wife were killed Friday night at the Palatine Bridge disaster on the New York Central road. The peculiar sadness about the calamity lies in the fact that Mr. Manning was married only a little over a week ago, and it was on their wedding journey that he and his wife met their death. During his course here Mr. Manning was prommently identified with the intellectual and athletic life of the college He was considered one of the most brilliant men in his class, and his standing especially in the classics was more than...
...privileges as students of Harvard college to enjoy exceptional advantages in regard to libraries. Besides the central, we have several special ones, of which the most important is perhaps, the Evans political economy library. This is used daily by a large number of men, and is especially crowded at this season of examinations. But now when every one is busy and depends on being able to turn quickly to various reference books, it is announced that several volumes have disappeared. It seems hardly possible that any Harvard man should be guilty of so ungentlemanly and inconsiderate an action as deliberately...
...group of pen and ink sketches by Mr. Papanti of Boston, cousin of the well-known dancing teacher, has just been published in a large engraving. The central piece is a sketch of the quadrangle from in front of Grays, together with University, Harvard, and a corner of Massachusetts Halls. The view is unusually complete, and is a difficult one to secure. Around this are grouped two rows of single views of the various halls and buildings, including the dormitories outside of the yard, the recitation halls, Memorial Hall, the two gymnasiums, the Law and Medical school buildings, the observatory...