Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harper's Weekly has the following in regard to a Harvard graduate: "The Rev. George Gordon of Greenwich, Conn., has been called to the pastorship of the Old South Church, Boston - one of the 'softest,' as it is one of the most historical, pulpits in the United States. The salary...
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has tendered his resignation as Parkman professor of anatomy in the Medical School of Harvard University. At the request of the officers of the board of government it will be permitted to remain in abeyance until satisfactory arrangements can be made for permanently filling the vacancy...
This last is hardly the way to make the day truly a senior's day, and thus it acts directly contrary to the committee's earnest endeavors to have the pleasures of the day confined to friends of the seniors, in college and out. The committee sincerely trust such an...
The junior exhibition prize at Yale was very curiously divided this year on the section line between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Leonard. Mr. Johnson is a Kentuckian, a son of Col. Stoddard Johnson, a prominent Democratic editor and politician, and a nephew of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson, the Confederate general...
The New 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...