Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will of the late Henry J. Morgan of New York bequeaths to the president and fellows of Harvard College one share of the valuable residuary estate, after giving his brother some real estate and $100,000, to be applied to the use of the college, the testator's preference, as expressed, being to aid poor young men in securing an education in any of the departments of the institution. Equal shares are also given to Yale, Amherst and Williams colleges to be applied in the same...
...Parker and Francis J. Parker, executors of the late Chief Justice Joel Parker, have notified the trustees of Dartmouth College of their readiness to pay to the college the sum of $50,000 as the first instalment of Judge Parker's bequest for the establishment of a law department in the institution...
...will never do for freshmen oarsmen to put off going into strict training until late in the year; not only do they injure their effectiveness while not in training, but they are also apt not to begin training at all, continuing their irregular habits up to the very day of the race...
...will be found that they are from the pen of one of the graduates who interest themselves in college athletics without sufficiently acquainting themselves with the actions and policy of those who have the direction of these athletics. Of such men, I regret to say, there have been of late altogether too many for the good name of the college. The presumptuous ignorance and the appalling misconceptions displayed by the writer of this letter are truly astonishing, nay, one or two of his statements are absolutely false. He claims to express the views of a large number of loyal Harvard...
...like a strange contradiction that journals professedly religious and temperate should be the most prone to indulge in intemperate and preposterous charges against the morality of college life. A most absurd and unfounded slander upon Harvard students, charging upon them the grossest and most flagrant intemperance, appears in a late number of the National Temperance Advocate, a story which it would be superfluous to deny. There may be a kind of temperance which the journal we have quoted does not profess to advocate but which motives of consistency might move it to adopt. Temperance of speech is not the least...