Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think that the college authorities should institute a committee on scholarships, which should judge whether a man's evident style of living entitles him to pecuniary aid or not; such a committee, I admit, would have odious duties, but a crying evil would be remedied to a great extent, at least...
...late it has become usual to form great generalisations about the origin of art, and the danger of following them in scientific research is that the student will leave the really important things that are at his door unexamined, while he follows out a theory that fletters his vanity and gives unbounded sway to his imagination and to his ingenuity. The safest method therefore is to base our observations and draw our conclusions from the actual historical facts at our disposal...
Selwyn Lewis Harding, A. B., (1886), died at his home in Cambridge, yesterday morning, after a short illness. He was a young man of great ability, and his class and the college suffer a heavy loss in his death. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, from which he was graduated with great credit, winning one of the coveted Franklin Medals for excellence in scholarship. His college course was marked by the same application, and he received his degree of A. B., summa cum laude...
...shows in an authoritative way what all have believed in regard to the growth of Harvard in natural prosperity and in general popularity. What President Eliot said in regard to legacies and the way in which many are tied up and so become almost valueless, we take great pleasure in referring to the attention of prospective benefactors of our university. We cannot see what advantage there is in affixing a great mass of conditions to legacies given to educational institutions...
...case has just been brought to our notice which demands a few words. This time it is a text-book in Natural History 2 which is missing. It is impossible for members of that course to get any adequate idea of the subject, which is being passed over with great rapidity, without constant references to the text-book on zoology by Claus. We have been informed that careful search on the shelves and on the desks of the reading-room, fails to bring the much needed book to light. Who is the selfish man who would deprive a hundred fellow...