Word: founder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...study rooms, connected with the bed chambers of the students. A third building, 80x74, is intended for a gymnasium, with all the most perfect appliances, office, bathrooms, a dressing and an examination room. The laundry occupies a fourth building. The trustees of this college. under the will of the founder, are to be members of the Society of Friends. Some of the managers of the old Haverford school, now converted into a college, are also trustees of the Bryn Mawr institution. A part of its faculty has already been selected. Miss M. Carey Thomas, a daughter of Dr. James Carey...
COMPULSORY PRAYERS.-Harvard college students have begun a "crusade" against morning prayers, in the hope of abolishing compulsory attendance upon them. When a Harvard student has been up the greater part of the night bedaubing with black paint the bronze statue of the founder of the institution, or painting in the same fashion the name of his class on the outside of the chapel, it is a hardship to make him rise in the morning and go to prayers. He is naturally exhausted with his night's struggle in behalf of the "black letter" art, and needs the sleep...
...Chate of New York has founded a scholarship in memory of his son, the late Ruluff Sterling Choate, a member of '87. The value of the scholarships is three hundred dollars, and for the first three years the holder is to be a member of '87, and the founder is to be consulted in regard to the selection...
...warriors, how the sophomore braves Lacked sand to begin the fight after the time-honored custom, how many of the latter were bareheaded on their return to the classic shades and finally how, in a fit of kindness, the thoughtful freshmen covered the head of our illustrious founder shivering on his cold seat in the night air with their one remaining plug, he desires shall be told in full. But with what justice can we relate the brave deeds of one freshman without relating the deeds of all, and that indeed, were too much to ask. '87 is not proud...
...last meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., spoke of the inscription on the base of John Harvard's statue, reading "John Harvard, founder, 1638," which gives the impression that this denotes the year in which our college was founded. As considerable comment has been caused by the date on the inscription, Mr. Wintrop's remarks will be of general interest...