Word: maying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...availing themselves of the elective system, have devoted their time and labor to such special studies as they judge best calculated to promote their aims and purposes in after life, will receive, on the "Commencement Programme and in the next following Annual Catalogue," credit for the proficiency which may be attained in any one or more studies, provided, in special cases, they shall also attain a certain average mark; and, at the same time, those who obtain a high average mark will be entitled to all the distinction it has heretofore conferred. Honors in an institution of learning can have...
...pledged themselves to supply the crew with the means; and they should feel that the rest of the University has also an interest in the result of the race. It is greatly to be hoped, therefore, that eighty-two will soon make up the deficiency, so that the crew may be able to meet Columbia on an even footing...
...over whom they have no power of dismissal, and who has no interest in performing his duties well, instead of one whom they can dismiss at pleasure. Experience has shown that it is next to impossible to obtain the dismissal of any College officer, no matter how inefficient he may be, so we suppose that we must make up our minds to submit to a petty despotism...
...establishment of a "teachership" of the Chinese language at Harvard, and in the support of his argument even goes so far as to say that a knowledge of Chinese, as well as of Greek and Latin, is desirable on account of the literary wealth of the language. Some persons may be a little skeptical in regard to this literary wealth of the Chinese, and we do not fear that a Chinese elective would attract students from Latin and Greek. It is not in this direction, but as a means of facilitating trade with China, that the study of Chinese will...
...members of the Class of '78 of Harvard College, sincerely mourn the sudden death of our classmate Melvin Hasbrouck, as taking from our number one who was not merely a pleasant and genial companion, but a noble-hearted friend, whose generous and thoroughly unselfish nature may well serve us as an inspiration and an example...