Word: confirming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...approach Professor Palmer's estimates. Since every considerable item of expense is given separately, the allowances for sundries in all grades seem disproportionately large. The tables in two of the letters in the appendix to Professor Palmer's published speech, as well as the estimates in the catalogue, confirm this view. Travelling expenses are placed at $20, but if this refers to travelling during term time, it should be omitted entirely, for a man who was living as closely as possible would not go home for the short vacations if the cost was so great. On the other hand...
...another expedition. In the excavations at Icaria, a theatre has been brought to light which is thought to prove that Icaria was the birthplace of the drama. According to the old Greek legends, this place was the seat of the drama, but no proof could be found to confirm this supposition. The success of Mr. Buck reflects great credit upon himself and the American School as being the first to settle the location beyond a doubt. The New York Nation gives a very accurate description of the excavations and the famous Dr. Curtins of Berlin has written a very complimentary...
...themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion really does not attract, but does repel, those for whose good it is exerted; if it tends to confirm in the irreligious their opposition, and to send them out into the world with - in many cases - a deep-seated aversion for such religious services as they have been forced to attend, is it not folly to maintain such a system, folly from the point of view of the college...
...report in the Sunday papers that five hundred thousand dollars had been bequeathed to Harvard by E. Price Greenleaf, of Boston, awakened the liveliest interest among the friends of the university, but further inquiry does not confirm this report in its details. Yesterday afternoon President Eliot, in conversation with a CRIMSON editor, stated that nothing definite was known in regard to the legacy. All that was known was that several years ago, Mr. Greenleaf made a will, bequeathing considerable property to Harvard. It is not known how large an estate the deceased left, nor how much of his property comes...
...graduate portion of the festivities goes. The distinguished men on the list will do honor to the occasion, not only by their action, but by their names. And now comes the result of the meeting of the undergraduate committee, which occurred last night, as reported in another column, to confirm our hopes of a celebration next autumn which shall do our Alma Mater more than credit in the eyes of the world. We think the order of the festivities as allotted for the three different days, is an excellent one. Sunday coming between the two days of the greater eclat...