Word: extended
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...zoology, botany and geology, gave the college its fame. The control of this bequest can not fail to greatly increase the usefulness of the observatory, although the work is to be carried on in foreign lands. The astronomical department is to be congratulated on obtaining such an opportunity to extend its work in astronomical research...
...This plan is not new, for it has been tried, and that unsuccessfully, in the largest college society; and a new plan must seek further and deeper than the plan now proposed promises to do to secure a lasting success. If such a plan can be promulgated we will extend it our heartiest support...
...investigators in their own land, and have brought back the enthusiasm for their work which is so strengthened by the seeing of the eye, the touch of the hand, and a general experience of classic lands. One of them, by the generosity of Miss Wolfe, was enabled to extend his researches to Asia Minor, from which he brought away a collection of over nine hundred inscriptions which, in the opinion of the great European epigraphists, is second to no other in historical value, and will, when edited and published, add great luster to American scholarship in the person of Doctor...
...chapel pulpit Sunday evenings, it seems to us that the congregation should be made up more largely of students and less of Cambridge people. These ministers, in many cases, come from great distances for the sake of delivering one address to Harvard men who should feel duly bound to extend them a cordial welcome, and who, for their own sakes, should take full advantage of the rare opportunities thus offered them...
...deep and constant Christian faith and his active Christian influence. At the same time we feel, and desire to express a heartfelt serrow at the loss we have sustained in the early death of one in whom the promise and power of usefulness was so great, and we extend to his family the assurance of our full sympathy in this, their keen affliction...