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Word: far (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...project has been started which, if successful, will go far towards removing what all must feel to be the greatest defect in college sports of late years-namely, that they afford exercise to so few of the students. The new project is the purchase by subscription of a large pitcher, to be contended for by the four classes on the Charles. It is proposed to have the pitcher very large, with surface enough to hold the record for a hundred years. The pitcher is to be awarded each year to the class which has in that year won the greatest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1884 | See Source »

...Classical Studies is to furnish to graduates of American colleges without charge for tuition, an opportunity to study classical literature, art, and antiquities in Athens, under suitable guidance; to prosecute and to aid original research in these subjects; and to co-operate with the Archaeological Institute of America, as far as it may be able, in conducting the exploration and excavation of classic sites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1884 | See Source »

...good results in awaking a more wide-spread interest throughout the country than could ever have been accomplished with a permanent endowment. "The close union of fifteen colleges in the promotion of a common object is a spectacle unique in this country, where the relations between the colleges are far too slight, and it is a cheering indication of the future successful development among us of classical studies in fields hitherto little cultivated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AMERICAN SCHOOL AT ATHENS. | 5/17/1884 | See Source »

...class races are now over and the old boat-house will present a far less animated appearance than it did before the class crews went out of training. The two crews which are to represent Harvard in inter-collegiate contests, however, will still continue to row; and on this account, the riverside ought not to be entirely deserted by the students for several weeks to come, not till the university and freshman crews have taken their last row on the Charles and are on the way to New London. The staunch supporters of boating and all those at all interested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/16/1884 | See Source »

...time, has recently received considerable discussion in the daily papers. The general opinion seems to be that the change is sure to come, sooner or later, and that Harvard should not miss the opportunity of taking the lead among the colleges in introducing this innovation. Some even go so far as to take exceptions to the implication that the catalogue of men who have received degrees from Harvard is printed in Latin, and assert that the language used is a sort of mongrel composed of English and Latin. If we cannot have pure Latin we can at least have pure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/16/1884 | See Source »

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