Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"I ask a small portion of your space for the purpose of recording the discovery of an autograph of John Harvard, and also of his brother Thomas, of whom I believe no other writing has been found. The brothers, as is known, held certain property by lease from the Hospital...
A few days ago the bowl-fight was revived at the University of Pennsylvania after an interregnum of on year. There was an ominous hush in freshman and sophomore quarters when Prof. Jackson reached the last batch of third-honor men. Several sophomores had donned their war-clothes under the...
Vesper services will be held on Thursday of each week in term-time until further notice. Each service will begin promptly at 5 p. m. and close at 5.30. The public are invited to these services. The front pews are reserved for members of the University and friends accompanying them...
We publish in another place a clipping taken from an editorial on "English at Harvard" in the New York Commercial Advertiser. The writer complains that the requirements for admission in English "indicate a peculiar narrowness of view on the part of those who made the selections and a curious tendency...
In no avocation is the percentage of college-bred men so small as in that of journalism, which fact has given rise to much comment in the daily press. Beyond a good knowledge of stenography, an easy style, and a fair understanding of the rudiments of grammar and rhetoric, nothing...