Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...could have just one grand tabogginning party in Cambridge, I should consider it enough to persuade all Harvard men that Canada is worth something, for of course I could n't get much of a confession from free-born Americans; and for that matter I myself stick up for New England, as my "own native land," though Canada seems to me to be but little behindhand...
...proportions of the poor and of the rich, both small, being about equal. It is also shown that high education is hereditary in this country, as in all others. Another table shows that the constituency of the College has increased within the last ten years; the proportionate representation from New England having decreased and that from the Middle and Western States having increased, chiefly owing to the increase from New York, which now supplies one eighth of the whole number of students. Almost two thousand dollars a year have been added to the funds for the support of meritorious poor...
...School the most important event was the establishment of a new professorship and of an admission examination, the latter to take effect in the year 1877-78. In giving the reasons for this innovation, it is shown that, in addition to its necessity in a first-class school, an institution which has real prestige and power will make a money profit by raising its standard, the improved class of students greatly enlarging the reputation and influence of the institution. Here, again, the Western States have increased their representation, supplying now about one fourth of the students, while New England supplies...
...building fund in the Medical School has reached $134,885, $123,000 having been paid in. The proportionate number of students from without New England and the British Provinces has doubled in six years, and the proportion of students who hold literary and scientific degrees has nearly doubled. In 1872 only twenty per cent of the graduates had spent two years or more in the School, which in 1875 had increased to ninety per cent, while forty-seven per cent had been there three years...
...received $54,005 during the year as a fund for the purchase of books, so that it has at present an annual income of more than $10,000 for that purpose. No funds are provided, though they are greatly needed, for salaries, cataloguing, binding, fuel, and service. A new Gymnasium is much needed for the 1,100 students and young officers who are now in Cambridge, its cost being estimated at $25,000. The fees from the students in the University amounted to $168,541.72, $102.884.78 coming from the College. I think that the rents are included in the income...