Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...adequate means, of obtaining the advantages of a collegiate training. They recognize how much more real good can be done by leaving their property to an institution which has proved its fitness to survive by an existence of over two hundred and fifty years, instead of trying to found some new school of arts or science. But the last legacy is one of particular value, because of the great freedom left to the trustees as to the disposal of the funds. In most bequests the true worth of the endowment is often seriously affected by the restrictions which...
...FOUND.- A black vest. Apply to Leavitt and Peirce...
...many other sports, but the attention paid to the game is certainly greater now than ever before. There are many men in college who not having the sufficient amount of training and practice to compete successfully in track athletics, base-ball or rowing, recognize that in lacrosse can be found one of the best means of obtaining thorough and systematic exercise. Contrary to the experience of most of the members of our 'varsity teams, the lacrosse players have the pleasant retrospect of a series of hard earned championships and the happy prosect of repeating the performance again an occurence which...
...FOUND, at the gymnasium, at the last winter meeting, a silver court plaster case with the monogram W. J. L. Apply to Andrew Lerner, 14 Mt. Auburn street...
...editor of the London Times once tried the experiment of taking the highest honor graduates of Oxford and Cambridge and trying to make journalists of them. I understand that in every case the experiment failed. Many college graduates have been found wanting, when tested, in those qualities which make the successful newspaper man. An early battle with the world often brings out in a young man that degree of "push," quick judgment and self-reliance which make him more likely to succeed as a reporter than one who has spent all his life in the study of books...