Word: harvardism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sheets of Secretary Gilman's annual report of the Society for the Collegiate Education of Women, we are able to give a summary of the work of the society last year. There were 115 students distributed into fifty five classes; and directed by forty-one professors and instructors of Harvard college. During the ten years there has been a steady growth in the work, as shown by the increase in the number of students. In 1879-80 there were twenty-five students; the tuition fees amounted to $3. 725.00, and the instructors received $5, 171.00. Last year with 115 students...
...were seniors. To the members of the senior class certificates were awarded at the close of the year, certifying that they had during the previous year "pursued a course of study equivalent in amount and quality to that for which the degree of Bachelor of Arts is conferred in Harvard college," and had "passed in a satisfactory manner examinations on that course corresponding to the college examinations." At the same time, on the recommendation of the Committee of Classical Instructors of Harvard college, certificates were given to one candidate for final honors in classics, and to two candidates for second...
...number of schools and colleges in which the graduates find opportunities for work is increasing every year. Several have found positions in New York city, and it is doubtless in some degree owing to that fact that the number of candidates for the Harvard examinations for women in that city has materially increased...
...usual instruction has been obtained during the year without difficulty. The professors of Harvard college still offer their services freely, and the members of the faculty in the different departments interest them selves in making each course of study full and well balanced. The college library has been used to even a greater extent than usual during the year, and the librarian and his assistants have offered the students many advantages in carrying on their work. The reference library has increased through the influence of the library committee, and by the generosity of friends, and it now numbers 2893 volumes...
...CRIMSON of October 29 was an article from the Boston Post describing Mr. J. Watson Taylor's ideas of rowing and critic sing the Harvard crews. A representative of the CRIMSON asked Captain Herrick to criticize Mr. Watson-Taylor's article and to explain why our crews do not row like the English crews. He said...