Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dr. Abbott was a man of great leaning, being unexcelled in this country in Biblical criticism and scholarship. He was extremely devoted to his work and was always ready to lend a helping hand to any scholar without exacting hand to any scholar without exacting any return. The most striking...
The adoption of the elective system marked the first step in the conversion of Harvard from a conventional American college into a university of originality of plan and broad scope. Ever since that system was adopted the energies of this institution have been largely devoted to an adjustment of the...
Year by year the colleges devoted to the education of girls are approaching more closely in all respects to the colleges designed for the other sex. In some colleges the girls are learning to row, and it is even rumored that the secret cigarette is smoked by presumably fair lips...
We print in another column a letter which advocates making some use of the old gymnasium. To many students it has seemed to be a pity that a building of such size should be solely devoted to the humble purposes of the college carpenter shop. It is situated so near...
The second paper of Professor Richards, from which we give several of the more important abstracts, does not seem up to the first in originality of ideas, but is, nevertheless, of sufficient interest to attract notice. He says: "With regard to the evils of the present system of college athletics...