Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...This matter of a college education," said she, "is getting to be overdone. Your grandfather graduated at Harvard when he was nineteen; your father was twenty-one; you will be twenty three or four; and so it goes on. At this rate your grandchildren, if you have any," - "Cela depend," I murmured gently, but she did not hear it, - "will be thirty-five before they are ready to enter any profession, and all the while their chances of success will be growing poorer...
...tell you a feeling is rising against it. Your cousin Ned writes from Exeter that most of his class and of the class below him are going to Yale. That is a new step for Exeter, and what does it mean? Why, that the parents are growing suspicious of Harvard's present system, and prefer to send their boys somewhere else. Now, if this is the case...
...horse arose, with even more difficulty and far less grace than his wooden brother who clambered over the walls of Troy. Finally, thanks to my aunt's energetic thrusts, we got him on his feet again, and in due time proceeded on our journey; but the discussion of Harvard's elective system was indefinitely postponed...
...proving that higher education in America tends to suicide, intends, during the coming winter, to expose the total depravity, to put it mildly, which exists in colleges that have not "about them the influence of the true [Roman Catholic] religion." "Frequently," says the Index, "students of Yale, of Harvard, of Rutgers, of Cornell, fall into the clutches of the law, and as a consequence are treated just as their offence merits. Generally the charge is 'drunk and disorderly,' and the customary alternative of ten dollars and costs, or ten days, is the last resource. This we know...
...before us. In many respects this number of the Index is ahead of former numbers; this year, for the first time, many new lists find a place between its covers, while the athletic records are as full and exact as usual, and, by reason of the numerous victories for Harvard that they show, are more entertaining than they have been for several years. The Index is designed for the use of those students - and their number is large - who wish to have at hand the College club and society lists, and a full record of the athletics of the previous...