Word: harvardism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...custom of former years, would begin training immediately after Christmas, and that it was particularly necessary to commence hard work right away because on February 15th, the Boston Athletic association would hold a handicap indoor meeting open to all amateurs, which it is hoped a large number of Harvard men will enter. Moreover, it may happen that the New York Athletic union may transfer its amateur indoor championship of America to Boston, on account of the better accommodations here. There is every reason why Harvard should work especially hard to win the cup this year...
Parodies on two of the poet Edgar Allen Poe's productions have been written, humorously describing Princeton's victories this year over Yale and Harvard...
According to this year's Index the principal cities of the United States are represented at Harvard by the following number of students: New York 115, Chicago 58, Philadelphia 20, Brooklyn 16, St. Louis...
...Harvard chemical laboratories are intended only for instruction in theoretical chemistry; it has never before been attempted here to teach the industrial department of the science, so that this new course may be said to open a new field. The popular desire will doubtless force the college continually to enlarge upon this department...
...building will be in order. Boylston Hall is certainly fast becoming out of date and inadequate. Already some inconvenience is felt in the laboratory accommodations and this is bound to increase with every new year. A new and finer laboratory is only a question of time. Now that Harvard has become in reality a university, her needs press upon her harder than ever, but these very needs are pleasing evidences of her substantial material growth...