Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hamilton, '87, won the first of the prizes offered, under the name of the Old South prizes, for the best essays by recent graduates of the Boston High Schools. The subject of Mr. Hamilton's essay was "Why did the Pilgrim Fathers come to New England...
...Works of a (1) General and miscellaneous nature come first, including bibliography, library economy and history, and works on books and reading. This heading is followed by (2) Theology and philosophy, under which are placed both general and physiological psychology, ecclesiastical and biblical subjects, ethics and ethnic religions. (3) Science embraces medicine, veterinary science, pseudo-science, and magic. (4) Useful arts includes all forms of industrial science, manufactures and bandicrafts, the combative arts, agriculture, lanscape-gardening, building (but not architecture), navigation, and aeronautics. (5) Fine arts embraces music, the archaeology of art and numismatics. (6) Antiquities (including folk-lore) takes...
...true; and it is with earnest appeal that the students of to-day look up to their instructors, hoping for some system, less trying and fairer than the present, the benefits of which may be reaped, if not by themselves, at least by those who are to come after them. But, if they do not now get the reform they want, they should at least endeavor, when they become, no longer students, but instructors, to give the others what they did not enjoy themselves. The evil is a growing one; but we, sincerely believers in the slow, but as least...
...Tufts. We had many pleasant experiences, by no means the least of which was the experience that everyone knew, not Smith of '86, but Ed. We asked after another Tufts friend. Our host stepped to the door and cried up the stairs for some one to tell Sam to come down. The students are on close terms with the professors, and are very intimate with each other. We were shown the "head grind," "the strongest man in college," the man who boarded himself on fifty cents a week, the chemical labratory, the "Quad," the various objects of interest that crowd...
...those of Harvard College; and the courses of study are nearly the same. They include courses in Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, English, German, French, Italian, Philosophy, Political Economy, History, Fine Arts, Music, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Natural History. Of these, English, with 50 students, is the most popular: then come Latin, Greek, History and Mathematics, with 39, 29, 17, 17 students respectively. Political Economy, too, is quite popular. There is connected with the Annex, a library of about 1100 reference books; and the students are besides entitled to the use of books in the University library, a by no means...