Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THE President says in his report that the first scholarship in Harvard College was founded in 1852. This will be news to William Browne of Salem, who gave pound 100 to the College in 1687 "for the bringing up of poor scholars."
THE report that the apparatus of the old Gymnasium would be used in furnishing the new one is without foundation. Those who have the matter in charge say that all the furniture of the Hemenway Gymnasium will be new, as the old apparatus is totally unfit for even its present...
A SERIES of Three Chamber Concerts will be given at Boylston Hall on Thursday evenings, Feb. 13, March 13, April 10, 1879, by the New York Philharmonic Club, Mr. Richard Arnold, Leader. The programmes will be selected from the Chamber Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and other great masters...
MR. WINSOR'S first annual report as Librarian of Harvard University has been printed. Mr. Winsor discusses the subject of catalogues, and speaks of the improvement of the Library bulletin, of the growth of the Library, and of the work done by the Library service. He recommends that some arrangement...
THE committee appointed to read the Bowdoin prize dissertations has made the following awards for philosophical and literary articles: Eugene M. Wambold, resident graduate, $75, for a dissertation on the "Demonetization of Silver by Western Nations";