Word: owned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"In his last annual report the president of Harvard College gives a very interesting and encouraging account of that institution's efforts to promote the teaching of the English language and English literature in the preparatory schools, by steadily increasing requirements in this respect as conditions of admission to college...
"But, gentlemen of Harvard, are you aware of the fact that your college is in America and within a few miles of Lexington and Concord? Is it not a strange teaching that you give, by implication at least, when you exclude from your lis's every American writer's works...
Some matters of faculty legislation at Cornell have been of much interest and importance. The most noteworthy is the change in the marking system, whereby all numerical marks are abolished for elective work. As a part of the sophomore work and almost the entire work in the junior and senior...
An authors reading has been arranged by the Alumnae of Wellesley College, in aid of the Norumbega fund of the college. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Mr. Arlo Bates, Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton and others will read selections from their own works and Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer...
Watson L. Savage, Amherst '82, has been appointed permanent director of this gymnasium. He pursues a similar method of measuring and prescribing exercise to that used in our own gymnasium. The membership of the club is limited to three hundred besides the stockholders. No professional is allowed to be a...