Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...outside of the State or almost outside the immediate vicinity of Cambridge can be on the Board of Overseers. The College has a large number of prominent graduates who live outside this State, and there is no reason, now that communication is so easy, why a graduate living in New York or even farther off than New York should not serve on the board. In the President's Report for 1874-75 two pages are devoted to the policy of widening the geographical influence of the College; and the Cincinnati examinations show this policy to be accepted by the Faculty...
...wheel has turned, and the Western papers rejoice in a new subject. Galileo is now undergoing examination by the Era and Chronicle; the Index will probably lend a helping hand after it has settled a few more disputed points regarding Napoleon, and then the other papers will drop into line. The Chronicle is getting modest, referring to itself only sixteen times in the last number, instead of over thirty, as in a previous...
...some weeks the Era has been laboring to bring the total depravity reached in the Senior Class elections at Harvard within the comprehension of its readers, and has at last succeeded, speaking of the elections as "a contest to which the worst ward elections in New York bear no comparison." Then follows the statement: "A committee of the Faculty has been appointed to investigate the affair, and in case any instances of bribery or trading of votes are detected, the offenders will probably be summarily dealt with...
...recent dinner held in New York in honor of Adam Smith's Work, "The Wealth of Nations," has excited considerable comment, and has aroused an interest in the subject which we hope will bear its fruits. The matter comes home to us in view of the recent withdrawal of Political Economy from the list of required studies...
...expect you to be blind to the crudities of Buoy. You have lived in Memphis, you have been to Chicago, and you once spent a week at the United States Hotel in Boston. You, of course, could see that in the society into which you had been received in New England Buoy would be quite out of place. But Neophogen is not Boston. At Neophogen Buoy was the best obtainable, and a useful man to know - I do not think I need say any more on the score of acquaintances. Only keep this simple rule in mind: if you desire...