Word: making
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...income of the fund of $1100, set aside for the purchase of English classics for the Child Memorial Library, has recently been used in adding to the collection of books the complete works of Thackeray, Defoe, Southey, and Dickens. It is the intention of the management to make this library exclusively one of English Works...
...estate of the poet, James Russell Lowell, on Brattle street, has been in danger of being sold and divided up into small lots. A committee, consisting of President Eliot, Bishop Lawrence, Professor Norton and others, has been trying to raise a sum sufficient to redeem the land and make a park of it. $19,000 of the necessary $35,000 has already been subscribed; but in order to make interest in the matter more widespread an appeal has lately been sent out by prominent men in other parts of the country...
...best and most productive of his efforts were given to this University; and he contributed as much as any single man to the establishment of our Graduate School. He had a rare combination of qualities, both of mind and of temper, to make him a superior teacher of advanced pupils. For him classical learning was no mere accomplishment, a pleasing ornament for a man of letters, but an important branch of Anthropology, giving insight into the mental operations and intellectual and moral growth of ancient peoples. To him literature and monuments were records of life, and were to be interpreted...
...performance which reflects much credit upon the Weld Boat Club, and offers additional proof, if any be necessary, of the club's practical value as a training school. In these scrub contests, furnishing racing experience and an incentive to men of all degrees of rowing ability to make use of it, lies one of the most promising features of the present status of Harvard rowing...
...make-ups of the crews are as follows...