Word: faste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greatness of Cambridge, save as a university town, is fast passing away, if indeed its fame has ever been separable from of Harvard. As a city of revolutionary memories Cambridge of course if famous. As for a long time the home of two of the greatest American poets it is everywhere known. But its fame in this last respect certainly, has been principally due to the college, for it was as professors at Harvard that much of the lives of both Mr. Lowell and the late Prof. Long fellow were passed...
...each case. At that time the college numbered so few that a change of location was not quite as difficult as it would be today with our hundreds of students and more instructors than the students of 1775. The first exodus was in May 1775. The provincial army was fast gathering in Cambridge to take part in the siege of Boston. Quarters were needed for the troops. In this emergency, the Massachusetts committee of safety ordered the students to be removed, and the three buildings, Massachusetts, Old Harvard and Old Stoughton were turned into barracks. No college work was done...
...question of allowing students the option of substituting modern languages for Greek is fast approaching a decision at Harvard. The battle appears to be between the faculty and the overseers, and in the anti-Greek party are President Eliot, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Supt. Seams of the Boston public schools, and, of course, Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Professor Agassiz favors the reform party.-[Graphic...
...each man in Harvard is his own master, and if he lives fast it is of his own choosing; for every man can find good friends of his own stamp in the multitude of students attending the university...
...last year's and were well attended. Owing to there being no track which the club bould use, no autumn race meeting was held, but it was voted lately to hold a race meeting in the spring on the new track on Holmes, which promises to be very fast. No efforts to make this meeting successful will be spared. The club has lately been divided into riding and associate members. This gives the club a riding membership of about 40 and an associate membership of about...