Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Later on we got to the Colleges, which occupy a great deal of valuable property, and, I was informed, almost entirely support the expenses of the city. The Yard was very gay with hacks and stages, and looked as cheerful as our old camp-meetings. It was very different from the Puritanic university Prexie Short Hair told us of; but, then, he came there in vacation, and may have got a one-sided idea of student life at Harvard...
...readily understand that there are men - not "bummers" or "society men," but good students - whose habits of study lead them to carry it far into the night, and who therefore consider the extra morning hour very valuable for sleep. But I think these men are exceptional, and that the great majority of men would find this morning hour much more valuable for study. The morning is the time when the brain is naturally freshest and clearest, and it is a time also when there are none of the distractions of athletics or entertainment which accompany the afternoon and evening hours...
...seems to us that it would be an excellent thing for the winners, at all events, of our spring contest (which we understand will take place about May 12), to enter themselves for the different sports of the New York Club. For Harvard men have not won any very great laurels at the Saratoga meetings, and it would be well for them to have as much practice as possible before going again to Saratoga. And competing with men of about equal ability, such as they are likely to meet at the New York Club, would be of great advantage...
...lifetime gave to the Library more than two hundred and fifty maps, thirteen hundred volumes, and from fifteen to twenty thousand pamphlets; at his death he gave his own library of nearly four thousand volumes. In 1866, Charles Francis Adams gave a collection of forty-eight volumes printed in Great Britain in relation to the rebellion. The Library also contains one hundred and sixty-eight volumes of manuscripts used by Jared Sparks, the manuscripts and books used by W. H. Prescott in preparing his Ferdinand and Isabella, and nearly six thousand publications collected by Dr. J. G. Palfrey. Among...
...Deronda professorship? The literature of the subject really seems to call for this; and as Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, I see, has been lecturing on George Eliot before the Boston University, I hope that the authorities at your Cambridge seat of learning may be waking up to this great want of the time. The lecture-room of the new professor ought to be in the Zoological Museum for convenient reference in a general way to matters pertaining to the Stone Age and various geological strata, which might throw valuable light on George Eliot's genius. A chemical laboratory adjoining...