Word: landed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...graduate of Harvard, or, in fact any other college, should always feel compelled to go elsewhere for purposes of study after he has obtained his bachelor's degree. Of course we can understand the advantages of going abroad, where the elements of travel and living in a foreign land are often a great inducement to men. But there certainly is no reason for men to leave Harvard and go to Johns Hopkins. Harvard has as complete a graduate course as any college in the country. Here are gathered together men who have become famous all over the world in their...
...will be made, large enough to hold the foot-ball and base-ball field and the track. In this way we shall have the full length track surrounding the other fields, and all of them shut in by a fence, as was proposed last year for Jarvis. The surplus land will be marked out for tennis, as well as what is now the ball-field on Jarvis. It is needless to comment on the advantages of such a plan, if carried out, over our present poor accommodations, which seemed to be reduced by a fresh slice every year. This will...
...occasionally public spirited enough to pay their way to the benches. Then there is already lack of room for practice for the various teams, and mutual concessions have to be made by them constantly. The athletic committee just granted the lacrosse team the present use of the land on Holmes field, between the new law school and the Pudding building, but the cricket club uses that in the spring, and then lacrosse will have to go elsewhere.[Advertiser...
Representative J. S. Robinson of Ohio has recently made a valuable contribution to the ethnological collection of the Smithsonian Institute. It consists of a narrow bracelet of copper plated with silver, found in a mound on land along the Scioto river owned by Gen. Robinson, together with the skeletons of three mound builders, pieces of copper armor and curiously-fashioned arrow-heads. The wristlet is deemed especially valuable as an evidence of the ability of the pre-historic race which built the mounds to plate one metal on another...
...recognition. Today as the student passes the marble slabs in the transept of Memorial, his imagination carries him to where the sons of his own Alma Mater lie buried in a Southern graveyard, and he is thankful that Harvard, together with all other institutions of learning in our land, still flourishes and that war is no more. Then he thinks of those who helped to make the present state of prosperity possible. Thus it is that patriotism is inculcated at Harvard, not in one but in every day of the year. We think, however, that it would show our patriotism...