Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will accrue therefrom to Harvard. It is rightly the constant end and aim of this university to seek to increase the proportion of workers among its students. Some drones there must be here, of course, so long as the university is poor; for the drones play as important a part as anyone else in the economy of the institution. The workers, however, are necessary to the scholarship of the university, and it is only as they outnumber the others that the standard of learning can be advanced. The way, however, to increase the number of earnest students here...
...astonishment, that of the gifts it has received since its establishment in 1819, amounting to $719,000, $653,000 have been contributed since the war-a fact of which the moral does not need to be pointed out. This total of $719,000 is exclusive of the gifts constituting part of the fixed endowment of the University, yielding a revenue which amounts to $282,600, all of which, except $2,600, has been also given since the war. Virginia has always been liberal to its University-"the glory of the Commonwealth" -allowing it at first $15,000 a year...
...papers on practical subjects are read and discussed. On the fourth floor is a room for the assistant house surgeons, and the museum. While the two departments, academic and hospital, are together, they are separated so that the students enter the academical department from Lucas street and have that part of the building at their disposal, but they obtain admission to the hospital only at certain stated times. The school is self-supporting, as it has no endowment...
...establishment of a free clinic from nine to eleven on Tuesdays and Fridays. Horses brought to the hospital on those days, if sick or ailing, will be prescribed for free of charge. At no other time will attendance be free. The clinic was not possible until the new part was finished, owing to the lack of room in the hospital...
...case where "much might be said on both sides." Perhaps, after all, it was well to abandon the traditionary usage, but still, many a graduate can be found who will take delight in telling of the exploits on "theatre night," and how, it may be, he passed the latter part of that night as a "guest of the city...