Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Such a state of things is a positive harm. It is not merely that the University furnishes education of second-class character, but it prevents many bright men who are capable of a first-class education from receiving it elsewhere, by persuading them or their parents that what it has...
On Friday last, at five minutes past twelve, there left Harvard Square two street-cars, laden with two tons of humanity and half a ton, more or less, of yet-to-be-developed music. The passengers were the members of the "Pierian Sodality and Harvard Glee Club," billed to appear...
There has recently been published a complaint from some of the colleges in the South and West concerning the low standing of the preparatory schools to which they are compelled to look for students. The low standard of scholarship which is maintained in many of the preparatory schools in the...
With the growth of specialism, the department of History at Harvard has increased in proportions and importance until at present twenty courses are barely adequate to the demand. There is still, however, room for advance in the study of the original resources. Work of this character engages much attention at...
A study of the minor living poets of England discourages the hope that any among them is likely to become great, or perhaps even to be permanently a second-rate favorite. Matthew Arnold for example, or Edmund Gosse in the younger generation, and all of them, seem to have little...