Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York paper gives the following complimentary notice of the book recently published by Prof. Hitchcock of Amherst: "The Manual of Gymnastic Exercises as practised by the classes of Amherst college, by Dr. Edward Hitchcock, now published in a pamphlet of about 50 pages, will furnish for colleges and other institutions what is generally acknowledged to be the model system. Amherst has been for many years distinguished by the perfection of gymnastic education...
Peterhouse College, the oldest of the seventeen colleges in Cambridge University, England, has just celebrated the six hundredth anniversary of its founding. It was founded in the reign of King Edward...
...attack upon the Divinity School printed in the Transcript last week, is said to have been written by Rev. Edward C. Towne...
...meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College was held on Wednesday. The board voted to concur with the president and fellows in their votes appointing Edward Cummings, A. B., proctor; re-appointing Henry W. Torrey, Charles E. Norton, Wolcott Gibbs, Francis J. Child George L. Goodale, and Crawford H. Toy to be members of the council of the library for three years from January 1, 1885, etc. The vote of the president and fellows to repeal the second and third paragraphs of the statutes of the University, numbered 14, was referred to Messrs. Peabody, Brooks, and Lowell. This...
...here, but it was claimed that cost of living was proportionately high. Col. Wright's figures show the falsity of this. Wages in Massachusetts are 62 per cent. higher than in England, while the cost of living is only per cent. higher. United States census reports confirm this. Mr. Edward Atkinson's statistics give further proof of the benefits of Protection. He shows that while the profits of the capitalist have fallen, wages have risen...