Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Paul's is one of the largest of our New England boarding-schools, a brief account of the life there may be found of interest...
...years, the amount received, including gifts, since July 1, 1886, being over $525,000. In addition to this sum, legacies have fallen to the college within the last year, which, though in each case dependent as to the time of their realization on the continuance of a single life, will, when realized, amount, it is believed, to at least $200,000. The number of students connected with the university has increased since '85 from 1,076 to 1,365, the present number. The president urges the importance of immediately beginning the construction of a new gymnasium and expresses the hope...
...show that Ireland's prosperity would be England's prosperity. When he entered on his political career, Ireland was regarded merely as a colony to be governed solely for the advantages of England, and it was in combating this idea that the greatest of Irish statesmen passed his life...
...taken as a whole. Kants Anthropology was nothing more than a treatise on psychology. The true anthropologist is he who, while he examines particular facts in every branch connected with his study. looks at them all as a unit. "Anthropology is the science of man and man's life." Ethnology is included in anthropology, as man must be known not only in groups but separately and in different classes...
These lectures are but a part of the lecture system which forms so important and instinctive a feature of Harvard life. This system has been developed so that now such a variety of topics is treated that nearly every taste is satisfied at some time during the year. As a source and means of general culture their effectiveness cannot be over-estimated. They generally treat of a broader range of subjects than can be taken up in a college course, and so form a good supplement to the regular student's work...