Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ENCOURAGED by the success of his first attempt, "Harvard and its Surroundings," Mr. King has extended the field of his operations to the neighboring metropolis, and has produced a handbook of Boston. It is, indeed, profusely illustrated, as the title-page states, and the illustrations are of a very heterogeneous character, - wood-cuts, engravings, heliotypes, albertypes, etc. all jumbled together. The book is also profusely crammed with advertisements, which the title-page does not state, - perhaps because it is perfectly evident, for a view of the Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s building occupies most of the page. In fact...
...King announces himself on the title-page as a member of Harvard College; he would have done better to have kept that fact to himself. He evidently had some compunctions about proclaiming it in this public manner, for he puts it in brackets. As a matter of taste it would have been better to have left out this statement. It is entirely irrelevant, to say the least...
...Boston Advertiser says of the Harvard Index of 1878-79: "It follows pretty closely in the tracks of its predecessors, and makes no attempt to present the humorous side of college life." The Advertiser is evidently unable to appreciate the subtle humor of the Index...
Bartlett Memorial.AT a special meeting of the Association of Alumni of Harvard College, held on the 25th November, 1878, the undersigned were appointed an executive committee to carry out the wishes of the association then expressed, viz. "to place in Memorial Hall a likeness of General Bartlett, in bust or medallion, with a tablet commemorative of his services. In the event then more money be contributed than is necessary for this purpose, the surplus to be used for the benefit of General Bartlett's children; and, further, that special contributions for the latter purpose be received by the treasurer...
...HOLMES, in his interesting memoir of John Lothrop Motley, has given a glimpse of Motley's college career. Motley entered Harvard College in 1827, at the age of thirteen, and at the end of his Freshman year stood second or third in his class. He made no effort to maintain this rank, and soon neglected his college duties to such an extent that he was "rusticated," which expression Dr. Holmes finds it necessary to define as "sent away from college for a time...