Word: hundreth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Medical School has been adjusted by the insurance companies at $20,000, and the work of repairing the damage done will be pressed forward as rapidly as possible. The building will probably not be ready for occupancy before October, and as that month will mark the one hundreth anniversary of the appointment of the first instructor in medicine at Harvard, it is suggested that would be a happy coincidence if the centennial anniversary could be celebrated by the dedication of the new building...
...York Times says very pertinently of the recent scrape of the Williams College freshmen, that "the incident shows for the hundreth time the imperfection of the present system of examinations and of class organization in our colleges. A lad with a certain gift of smartness can get through a term with a very limited amount of study, and trust to trick and device to save himself from disgrace at the final test." The Times further argues in favor of substituting regular weekly examinations, in place of the present system of annual or of term examinations. Then it says very strongly...
...soul of melody in the Schubert octette, which the musicians played even better than the septuor. Prof. Baerman was among the listeners, as were also Mr. Perabo and Therese Liebe and many other music lovers. We have hardly had a concert so fully attended by outsiders as this one-hundreth one. But last Monday evening the chapel was crowded again, at the entertainment of our Shakespere Society, at which Prof. Locke Richardson gave "Henry IV." Some little dissatisfaction was felt previous to the evening at the play chosen, but all agreed afterwards that it was intensely interesting. Of course Prof...