Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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The Law and Medical Schools, particularly, are insufficiently endowed, and depend somewhat for their maintenance on the number of their students. Any attempt to raise the standard of the Schools diminishes the number of students; and though the class of men who are sent or kept away by this cause...
"The year 1871-72 was the first year of the new plan of instruction in the Medical School and of the new requisitions for the medical degree." The expenses of the School for that year were $600 more than for the year previous, while the receipts from students were $3...
"To fill out its curriculum the [Law] School greatly needs a fourth professorship, to be devoted to Roman Law, Jurisprudence, and the History of Law; but this chair must be amply endowed, for the number of students in this country who know enough to desire thorough instruction in these subjects...
The lack of money has been a great hindrance to this work of improvement, and, with the losses of the College in the Boston Fire to retrieve, the deficiency will be still more severely felt the coming year.
It will be with no ordinary feeling of satisfaction that the students of the College proper will read these words: -