Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college as trustee is able to give to poor students over $300,000 a year. From this it would appear that the benefactors of Harvard consider that it is quite as important to encourage needy freshmen as to give the members of the faculty the means of sustaining life.- Boston Advertiser...
...Jewett, who is giving instruction in Arabic and Hebrew during Professor Toy's absence in the East, is a Harvard graduate of the class of '84. Since his graduation he has continued his study of the Semitic languages in Egypt and Syria. He has made himself familiar with the life in these places, and this winter will give some public lectures on the subject...
...especially of the medical faculty, to make the regular course at the Medical School a four-years' course. But the difficulty has been that very few men thought that they could spare the time to give four years to a college course and four years to their professional studies. Life seemed too short to them for that...
...those men then who wish to perfect themselves in the science of medicine and who have limited time the plan is very advantageous. Some might say that a great disadvantage would be that a man's college life and pleasures would be shortened, and the social life of his senior year spoiled, no graduating with his class, no class day honors. Yes, in a measure his social life in college would end with his junior year, but would that small consideration be sufficient to offset the splendid advantages and added time for his life work...
...freshmen who are wise enough to learn through the experience of others will close their doors to-night, they will have learned none too early in their college life that their salvation at Harvard, as well as elsewhere, lies not in subservience, as some would try to make them believe, but in a quiet, dignified independence...