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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard College was founded in September, 1636, and its first class of nine members graduated in 1842. Its 200th anniversary was duly observed. September 8, 1836. Appropriate services were held in the First Parish Church. A large tent was erected south-east of Gore Hall, on the rising slope, where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Coming Anniversary. | 1/4/1886 | See Source »

Myers' retirement (if such is the case) will leave a huge gap in American athletics that will be a long time healing up, while such men as Baker and Goodwin are objects of pride and admiration to their countrymen, still the fact that they confine their powers almost entirely to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/21/1885 | See Source »

The main object of all our examinations is to test individual proficiency with sufficient definiteness to enable the university to bestow its degrees and honors. Any such testing, however, must evidently be based on the character of individual work; otherwise it is not merely unjust, but it is a farce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Marking System. | 12/18/1885 | See Source »

After discussing the subject in its political, social, and moral and religious aspects, the same writer continues: 'It may be said, 'Why criticise the workings of one and the same principle in these different departments, without suggesting a remedy?' It would be almost impossible to name a remedy that should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Philadelphia's Provincialism. | 12/16/1885 | See Source »

"Those are note-takers," he replied, "a modified form of a phonograph. You see everything I say is taken down by the instrument, provided it is kept in motion. The necessity of keeping the crank revolving is what insures me an audience which remains awake," and the professor smiled grimly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NOTE TAKERS." | 12/14/1885 | See Source »

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