Word: england
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...spelling-match mania has reached England, and a "Spelling Bee" took place last month at Rugby. Three gentlemen kept apace for some time, but at length one succumbed before Sanhedrim, and another before pseudonyme, leaving the victor to glory in the correct spelling of physiognomy...
...When Harvard was true to her seal, Christo et Ecclesiae, her halls were filled with the brain and brawn of New England. Now that she is, in the words of Henry Martyn, 'crucifying Christ between two thieves, the classics and mathematics,' how has she fallen from her former position...
...that they shall have ascended to the height of twelve thousand feet above the sea; but it would seem difficult for the Boston club to form any valid test of the ability of candidates, as it is a sad fact that there is scarce a high hill in New England which cannot be safely ascended on a cloudy day and without guides...
...institution which has real prestige and power will make a money profit by raising its standard, the improved class of students greatly enlarging the reputation and influence of the institution. Here, again, the Western States have increased their representation, supplying now about one fourth of the students, while New England supplies one half, and the number from the South is also larger...
...building fund in the Medical School has reached $134,885, $123,000 having been paid in. The proportionate number of students from without New England and the British Provinces has doubled in six years, and the proportion of students who hold literary and scientific degrees has nearly doubled. In 1872 only twenty per cent of the graduates had spent two years or more in the School, which in 1875 had increased to ninety per cent, while forty-seven per cent had been there three years...