Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sumner left Cambridge with grateful recollections of college life. He kept up his interest in all matters pertaining to his Alma Mater, and Harvard never sent forth a son whose affection was warmer at the parting or endured more faithfully...
...Haven, and the Yale people at once made him at home, giving him the nominal position of assistant to Professor Gibbs, the Hebrew scholar, who was then librarian, in order that the young Greek might be entitled to a room in the chapel building where the library was kept. Soon some of the tutors formed a class, to enjoy his reading and exposition of Aristophanes. Then a Hartford publisher got his grammar printed at the Cambridge Press, and at last Professor Felton drew him to Harvard and kept him there...
...brain work that they need an atmosphere well down towards zero in which to be comfortable. And yet this seems to be the theory on which Massachusetts is heated-or rather left unheated. It does not seem to be an extravagant demand to ask that this hall be kept warmed hereafter whenever men are compelled to take a three hours examination in it. On the contrary it seems a reasonably wish to be comfortable under such circumstances...
...carried our main points, we have not stopped our adversaries' advance, we have not marched victoriously with the modern world; but we have told silently upon the mind of the country, we have prepared currents of feeling which sap our adversaries' position when it seems gained, we have kept up our communications with the future." Such has been the story of Harvard's past; what of her future...
Constant complaints are being made that the laboratories are not kept open during the time of the mid-year examinations. It does not seem to be necessary that this department should be closed for almost three weeks because recitations are not in progress. Many men finish their examinations from one to ten days before recitations begin again. To them it would be of great advantage if they could spend some of this spare time in the laboratory. Working out experiments in chemistry is slow work at the best, and any extra time which could be thus devoted to it would...