Word: frees
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Then, on the other hand, every course, even in the Mathematics, had a couple of admirers, and it being known that I was searching for knowledge, there grew up a sort of free fight on the electives in my room, at which I was moderator, and while one grind yelled in one ear the praises of the Hitopadeca, one on the other side recited Beowulf, and another screamed the theory of Quaternions down my neck...
...Union College recently received $10,000 to assist in the completion of her Memorial Hall. Mr. J. B. Cornell also gives $10,000, and Mr. Clarkson N. Potter $5,000 for the establishment of free scholarships...
...Learning, is celebrated, we are told, for its salubrious climate. The heats of summer are there less intense than in many places farther north, while this elysium is yet far enough south to escape the "rigors of northern winters." "At the same time the clear, dry air, entirely free from the malaria which infects so many parts of the West and Southwest, acts as a clarifier of the blood, and a gentle tonic to the energies of persons enfeebled by long inhaling the pestiferous air of ague-breeding regions." One would fancy it a charming place for fellows obliged...
...such instruction, Harvard has gentlemen whose opinion on these matters would be universal authority; she has already the precedent of free lectures by her professors, and she has a theatre peculiarly adapted for such purposes. The establishment of a course of fortnightly or monthly lectures on questions of the day by men who devote their lives to the subjects they would be called upon to explain would satisfy an imperative need of our education, and enable Harvard to send forth that constant supply of educated practical men which the country has a right to expect of her, - a right thus...
...Foot-ball Club are arranging this spring the matches to be played next fall. Till then, no games will take place. The club has been able to pay not only the expenses of the last game, but also all its unpaid bills; and it thus stands now free from debt...