Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Russell Lowell, during his term of service in the Smith Professorship, made a large collection of books in the Romance Languages, mainly in Old French and Spanish. In his will be gave from this collection such books as were not already to be found on the shelves of the Harvard College Library, but the greater part of the collection remained in the hands of his heirs. This part consists of over seven hundred volumes, many of them of great interest to the student of Romance Languages, not only of course by reason of their intrinsic value, but also because they...
...December number of the Graduates' Magazine, the first article that gains notice is "Harvard and the Radcliffe Spectre," by Professor W. E. Byerly '71; which is a discussion of some of the conclusions reached by Professor Wendell in an article on "The Relations of Radcliffe with Harvard" which appeared in the Harvard Monthly for October. Professor Byerly believes that the picture of the dangers of those relations by Professor Wendell was "rather lurid," and he considers in turn the three statements in that article. First he shows by figures for the past six years that co-education in the College...
...College Library, additional shelf room for books, study rooms for professor and advanced students, increased space for administration, and a better reading room. He says: "It is a singular fact that, at a time when the building of libraries has become a favorite form of public benefaction, Harvard has not received any great gift for a library building. It is useless to expect an ample equipment and a generous building from any other source." In summarizing the requirements, Professor Lane puts beauty first because he believes "that the Library does not take the place it should in the life...
...members of the nine of being a marshal. The disproportion in favor of football is even greater than that, as football has been in vogue less than 25 years. The most cursory glance at the figures will settle once for all whether athletes are honored by their classmates at Harvard...
...Henry Lillie Pierce with portrait, and "The Crimson" by H. James, 2d, 1G., an appreciative account of the seriousness and levities of one University organization, complete the unusual articles of the magazine. Under the usual heading of the "The University," Professor Hart discusses the expansion of Harvard and the interesting academic and athletic situations, and F. E. Bissell '00 writes "Student Life." Athletics, Radcliffe, the departmental reports, graduate news, articles on the Harvard Numismatic collections and the Harvard Union, and the regular notes and records, with a view of Harvard College in 1795 as the frontispiece, complete the number...