Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact that several men fainted in one of the lecture rooms yesterday only goes to prove more conclusively that the majority of the students in Harvard College do not know good air from bad. Something should be done immediately now that the warm weather is approaching, to make the ventilation in all the rooms more perfect...
...president of the Bowdoin College is quite a promotion for a young man of 27, only two years out of a Theological Seminary, and but six years out of college; but the ability and acquisitions of the Rev. William DeWitt Hyde seem to merit this honor; and those who know Bowdoin and who know Mr. Hyde are of the opinion that the college has made no error in her choice. Mr. Hyde entered Harvard from Exeter Academy in 1875, with already a good reputation for scholarship and for facility in public debate. He won honors all along his course, both...
...Monthly for April will probably appear to-day, but may be delayed. The advance sheets give promise of an exceedingly good number. Two of the articles in the number are of peculiar interest to college readers. "What do we Know About John Harvard?" by Dr. Hart, cannot fail to receive the careful attention which it deserves from all Harvard men. The object of the article which is "to select and group together everything that is positively established as to John Harvard," makes it perhaps the most distinctly valuable contribution that has yet appeared in the Monthly. It is certainly this...
...university has been converted into a roomy and well equipped gymnasium. Frank Dole is in charge of this, and his instruction and supervision is doing much for the athletic men. Next year regular gymnasium work will be prescribed by the college, and much curiosity is felt to know the outcome of this innovation. The present gymnasium, though good, is merely temporary, as a plan is on foot to build a new and expensive one, which will rival the Hemenway; the ground has been chosen, and work will be begun as soon as the necessary funds are raised...
...members of the H. P. C. to whom allowances for the New York trip are due must let me know before April 27th. as the New York accounts must be settled...