Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The Cornell juniors and sophomores have passed resolutions recognizing the right of the freshmen to hold banquets, and discouraging any further attempts at disturbing the peace.
Recitatione Latina hominorum viridum. Prof. - "Well, Mr. B., explain that reference in the next line. What do you know about Euterpe?" H. V. - "Nothing, sir, further than that he was a celebrated musician!" - [Clamose snickerunt omnes.
The policy of Johns Hopkins University in the matter of buildings and equipments has been from the first, as is stated in its annual register, "to defer the formation of museums, and the purchase of collections for remote and general purposes, and the reconstruction of costly buildings." It is partly...
Finally, gentlemen, I am not urging you to an impossible work, but to one already well begun. The resort to Harvard grows more and more national, in spite of the extraordinary multiplication of colleges. It is today less of a Massachusetts university, more of a Middle State and Western State...
In the legislature the proposed sale of the State's railroad stock was discussed; more railroad extensions were asked for, and the Charles River Street Railway received further support from the Cambridge petitioners.