Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual report, President Eliot draws attention to a fact which is probably truer of Harvard than of any other of the large universities of this country. The college loses very few instructors of the higher ranks through the efforts of other institutions to draw from our force of teachers. During the past year, seven universities and colleges have made offers of higher salaries and titles to four professors four assistant professors and six instructors. In each case the call has been declined. At the same time the number of assistants and recent graduates who accept positions in other colleges...
...Blake time very poor, usually ahead at the catch; does not shoot his hands away promptly at the end of the draw...
...calendar for the next week appears the announcement of a new course in Literature and Reading to be conducted by Mr. Copeland during the second half year. The course is entirely voluntary and as the meetings come but once a week, they will draw but slightly on the time of those who may wish to take advantage of the opportunity which is now offered. Mr. Copeland has been very successful in his previous voluntary classes in vocal training, expression and speaking. The new course may in a way be considered a natural sequence to the work which has gone before...
...mean that the views of the writer will taken without investigation to be the views of the college. It will be our purpose to consult as fully and often as necessary those who are in a position to judge best of the bearings of certain question and then to draw our conclusions as conscientiously and with as good judgement as possible. In news items we shall still continue to present, as best we can, not only all matters of interest in our own university, but the more important events of other colleges. A college newspaper should not limit its field...
...midst of this age of Queen Anne, Pope stood out as the foremost literary man. It was a time of sharp struggle between the Whigs and the Tories and each party, eager to strengthen its position, did its best to draw into its ranks the leading men. The leading writers especially were sought, for political pamphlets had much to do in swaying the popular mind. In this way such men as Newton, Steele, Prior and Addison found their way into high offices under the government...