Word: establish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...habit of being beforehand with whatever a man undertakes is an important element of success. The only sure method of securing intellectual thrift and comfort of doing what one does without distraction. and so of doing it in the most healthy condition of one's faculties, is to establish the habit of anticipation in work. Have some fresh intellectual acquisition always in hand. Some students, after getting fairly settled, merely work on from yea to year with the materials of knowledge already acquired. This is not wise. If the student wants to make steady, healthful growth, he should always have...
...would have been the case with the distinguished English critic who so recently was in Cambridge, had the opportunity been offered; and as did happen in the case of the French visitors last year. In this connection we would suggest that it would be a pleasing custom to establish, if, when such visitors are present, a reception might be offered them by some one of the societies or clubs of the college. If also graduates and professors could be invited to such receptions an excellent feature of college life would be added in thus strengthening the social and friendly relations...
Oberlin is the third college to establish a chair of political economy...
...ordination as a dissenter either there or here. In a little less than a year after his arrival in America, he died of consumption, leaving all his library and "half of his estate, being L800," to the college which the court had decided two years previously to establish at "New Town." After his gift however, the name of the town was changed to Cambridge. This is the extent of our knowledge of John Harvard. With these meaner records to guide the artist the statue must be formed...
...number who feared that it would never succeed in gaining a foothold in the university, largely on account of the much-talk-of "Harvard indifference." But in spite of the many difficulties attending its foundation it has attained a remarkable degree of success and has become at last firmly established as one of the permanent institutions of the college. The membership is larger than ever before and numbers almost half of the university. It does a very large trade, requiring little or no capital, and working with the very smallest margins. The success of our own institution has aroused...