Word: harvard
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CLASS OF '79 of HARVARD COLLEGE...
...will be admitted to the instruction for women who presents herself at the Harvard University Preliminary Examination for Women, and passes satisfactorily in any eight of the following subjects: 1. English; 2. Physical Geography; 3. Botany or Physics; 4. Mathematics 1 (Arithmetic; Algebra, through equations of the first degree, including Proportions, Fractions, and Common Divisor); 5. Mathematics 2 (Algebra, through Quadratics; Plane Geometry); 6. History; 7. French; 8. German; 9. Latin; 10. Greek. This examination will be held in Cambridge, New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, beginning Wednesday, May 28, 1879. The regular fee for the examination is $15. For this...
...Harvard graduates were in the habit of reading our College papers, they would be surprised, not to say bored, by the recurrence year after year of the same topics of discussion. The debate on pessimism and the Nation had a long run; then came, at intervals, satires and poems condemning annual examinations; and as lately as last week the Advocate confessed its lack of originality by renewing the time-honored attacks on the marking system. The Crimson has also returned to a well-worn subject in printing, in the issue of April 18, an article on public opinion...
...much of college men and college manners seriously believes this is true, I doubt. Who ever heard of a man who, in spite of his dislike to liquor, drank to excess because he heard it was the "proper caper"? A great many hard things have been charged against the Harvard undergraduate; but this is the first time, to my knowledge, that he has been accused of imbecility...
...another column will be found an article showing the cause and nature of the point recently raised by the Harvard Club in regard to a decision of the Board of Overseers. That the board has a right to exclude from its membership all graduates who reside outside of Massachusetts, is a conclusion which the Harvard Club does not accept, and whether it ought to have such a right is the point proposed to be decided. No one, of course, questions the diligence and fidelity of the present board, and it is only to promote the true interests of the University...