Word: founder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...While this perplexity exists here at home, there is going on in a quiet, unassuming way, something which will do more to commemorate fittingly this great event than can the presentation of any play. It has been a continual source of regret that so little is known about the founder of this college, John Harvard. Up to the present time the only things of importance known about him are his graduation from Cambridge in 1631. his arrival in this country in 1637, and his death by consumption in 1638. It appears also that he was ordained in the Church...
...discovered. Mr. Henry Waters, the agent of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, has since taken up the work, and by most assiduous labor has found what he thinks will lead to the dissipation of the mist which has so long overhung the early life of the founder of America's greatest university. Just at this time Mr. Waters is obliged to suspend his operations for want of funds, and has appealed to the graduates of the college for aid. Several alumni associations have already generously responded, but there yet remains a considerable sum to be collected. The efforts...
...Bancroft, then eighteen years of age. He went to the university of Gottingen, the first American student who ever studied in Germany by the assistance of this college. It is interesting to notice that the great historian, the first holder of anything like a fellowship in America, was the founder of the most valuable fellowship in American colleges. He must have had a deep appreciation of the advantages which a fellowship confers...
...that occasion it is the duty of the Bursar to present a needle and thread, admonishing each recipient with these words, "Take this and be thrifty." The custom is one of great antiquity, and has been deemed to have arisen, perhaps without much authority, in a pun on the founder's name. Aiguille is the Erench for needle, and fill for thread, and the two together have certainly some resemblance to Egglesfield, the confessor of Queen Phillipa, who was the founder of the College. Possibly four or five centuries ago the pronunciation may have been more closely assimilated. Quaint ceremonies...
...number, gathered for instruction in this new scientific college. How rapid its growth has been during the succeeding twenty years is shown by the number of students in attendance to-day, 579, which includes several women. This rapid growth is largely due to the high aims of the founder and first president, Wm. B. Rogers, whose plan was to have the institution first-class in every particular. This becoming known. the institution at once became popular, and the size of the classes has continued to increase. The work of carrying it on has been accomplished mainly by tuition fees...