Word: gately
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Swedish minister proved more attractive. If he had accepted the position here, it is probable that America and not Europe would lead in thoroughness of education. The principles which Comenius represented are embodied in his various writings, the most important of which are the "Great Didactic," the "Gate of Languages" and the "World Illustrated." The object of the first of these was, as expressed in the subtitle, "to teach everybody everything" and "to search out a rule in accordance with which the teachers teach less and the learners learn more." Knowledge, virtue and religious conviction, the three things...
...Comenius's text-books, the Janua linguarum or "Gate of Languages" was the most popular and it was used in Germany for over 200 years. Copies and translations were also brought to America and it was probably used in Boston Latin School and possibly in Harvard itself. There are four copies in the Library bearing the names of Harvard...
George Pellew, a graduate of Harvard in the class of '80, met his death by a sad accident on the morning of Feb. 18. An inflammation of one eye had rendered his sight defective. While passing along West Thirty-fifth Street, he fell through an open gate into the area below and was instantly killed...
...that, as far as can be judged by precedent, such a neutral game would not be a failure in point of view of numbers or of interest. Two years ago when we last played Yale in base ball, the first Yale game played in Cambridge took in $2260 as gate money; the class day game took in $3880 and the game at Springfield $3,500. This certainly does not show such a failure in numbers as Yale suggests...
...Carey, $800.70 to pay most of the expenses of the Carey Building for 1890-91. From William W. Goodwin, $25. 83 to be added to the income of the Charles Haven Goodwin Scholarship Fund for 1890-91. Among other gifts acknowledged by the Corporation is the new gate-way at the Cambridge St. entrance to the College Yard, from George von L. Meyer...