Word: likes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...called to each conference, men with a large knowledge of the subject to be discussed. In a university as large as Harvard has grown to be, every man cannot be expected to understand thoroughly every question of the day, and the special representation at these conferences is like the employment of specialists at important trials, a feature of modern civilization which has come to play a recognized part in all great law cases...
BOSTON THEATRE.- Miss Margaret Mather, in "As you like it." Performance...
...study. President Kirkland approved, and chose Bancroft, then eighteen years of age. He went to the university of Gottingen, the first American student who ever studied in Germany by the assistance of this college. It is interesting to notice that the great historian, the first holder of anything like a fellowship in America, was the founder of the most valuable fellowship in American colleges. He must have had a deep appreciation of the advantages which a fellowship confers...
There's nothing like notoriety. Harvard's '84 foot ball team is posing before the country as advertisements for a brand of cigarettes.- (Princetonian...
...this connection we should like to offer a suggestion as to the number of men who shall represent the different classes in the future conferences, if such there be. It is that the number from each class shall not be the same, but graded according to the length of time which the classes have been in college, that the senior class have the largest delegation, the junior next, and so on, down through the sophomores to the freshmen, who shall have the smallest. It seems manifestly unfair that the seniors with all their experience in college, should not be able...