Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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"Two hundred and fifty pounds a year is a low estimate of the average annual value of a fellowship; so that the annual expenditure at Oxford and Cambridge for Fellows, who in that capacity are bound to no service to the University, and are free to follow their own pursuits...
"For many, many years to come even the richest American universities will need to apply all the money they receive to the endowment of instruction and research (not separately, but together), the acquisition of grounds, buildings, collections, and instruments, and the enlargement of their means of providing a gratuitous education...
It must be borne in mind that in America no provision is made for supporting even poor students who wish to pursue their studies in the University town after graduation.
In the first place, we took it for granted that good part-singing needed nothing to recommend it, and that most people enjoyed it. We see now that our assumption was a false one, for "L." apparently thinks that a Glee Club, if it is to succeed, must have a...
The point we tried to bring out clearly was, not why we should have more and better music at Harvard, but why we do not have it. This we traced back to the prevailing lack of energy, for which we could neither account nor propose any remedy.