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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the corporation May 10, we note the presentation of a letter announcing the foundation of a fund, which had already reached $50, 000, to increase the salary of the president of Harvard College. This find is given on condition that it be invested as a separate fund (to be called the President's Fund,) the income of which is to be paid every year as a part of his salary to the president of Harvard College, in addition to his present salary of $5,000 a year and the use of a house. The salary of the president...
...first given to the venerated man whom we commemorate this day, first to strike the key note in the character of this people ; first to perceive with a prophet's foresight and to promote with a princely liberality, considering his means, that connection between private munificence and public education, which, well understood and pursued by others, has given to New England no small portion of her name and praise." Previous to 1765 America can hardly be said to have had either a national life or a national literature ; therefore she has neither great statesmen, theologians nor scholars. But among such...
...been generally recognized, and the programme laid out for the coming session will be watched with interest, while the results will be received with the consideration to which they are entitled. Nature, an English scientific weekly journal, with an extensive circulation and of great influence, in a very favorable note congratulates the university on the progress it has made and the position it has attained. It holds up the Johns Hopkins as a model for the old universities of England to study in the pursuit of original research...
...interesting to note the increase in strength since the gymnasium was first opened in 1880. There are thirty men in college now who are stronger than the strongest man in 1880. The average in 1880 was about 400. Now the average is over...
...have earned them. This led to a mild kind of a revolt, which was speedily checked by the faculty, who forced into taking honors those who had previously declined, on penalty of losing their degrees. It is but a natural outcome of having a faculty which takes but little note, if any, of student feeling in matters which are of the greatest moment to the morale of the latter...