Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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We are glad to learn that so large a proportion of the students remained at Cambridge during the holiday vacation, and were to be seen carrying huge piles of books from the library. This gives us a new insight into the character of the Harvard man. We always knew he...
Most of Sumner's classmates did not anticipate for him more than ordinary success in life. But those who knew him best were impressed with his love for books and with something in his tone and manner which gave assurance that he would make his mark. This feeling grew stronger...
The following extract is taken from a comment in the Science Monthly on a conversation between two learned European scholars. Professor Struve said that "this conclusion had been drawn independently by so many differently circumstanced men in the Russian and German-Baltic provinces, from the general impressions which their recollections...
In addition to those already mentioned, he claims for it the following advantages: "1. The college is sending out a better breed of men." Under this head he speaks of the good influences produced upon the preparatory schools and he also quotes from President Eliot's remarks, which summarize the...
Dr. William Everett, principal of Adams Academy, has presented a portrait of Samuel Rogers, the English poet, to the college. It will soon be placed in Memorial Hall. It was painted about the year 1847 by Chester Harding, and by him sent in the spring of 1848 to Edward Everett...