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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These different methods of study need not be carried on entirely apart from one another. If there is an opportunity for younger students to make investigations, as in local history, they should be encouraged in this pursuit, for it cannot fail to give them a lifelong interest in the study of history. In confirmation of this view, Justin Winsor related his youthful experience in collecting information from town records, from the inscriptions on gravestones, and from the traditions of aged people of the neighborhood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Historical Society. | 2/12/1885 | See Source »

...Sketch of the University of Virginia" has recently appeared, from which we learn, with some astonishment, that of the gifts it has received since its establishment in 1819, amounting to $719,000, $653,000 have been contributed since the war-a fact of which the moral does not need to be pointed out. This total of $719,000 is exclusive of the gifts constituting part of the fixed endowment of the University, yielding a revenue which amounts to $282,600, all of which, except $2,600, has been also given since the war. Virginia has always been liberal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/10/1885 | See Source »

Tutoring is a very thriving business at Harvard, and, I suppose, elsewhere. Certainly Harvard cannot have a monopoly of the men who need to be tutored, nor of those who wish to tutor. However, in this, as in other respects, Harvard is not behind her sister colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tutor at Harvard. | 2/7/1885 | See Source »

Paid. JEWLIAN MONEYMAKER, ESQ.This is the bill, which speaks for it self. I hardly need to say that the "credit for errors" was made at my suggestion. The distinction between "other services" and "miscellaneous" is certainly an ingenious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Janitors. | 2/5/1885 | See Source »

...competency. Some states, e. g. Lomsiana, South Carolina, Georgia, have had as many as five constitutions. Contrary to our experience of corporate bodies, in whose charters general wording leaves room for the framing of byelaws, the newer American constitutions embody much criminal, family and police law. Such constitutions frequently need amending...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Bryce on "Constitutions, Flexible and Rigid." | 2/4/1885 | See Source »

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