Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last Harper's Weekly contains the second one of Professor Sumner's articles on "Our currency for the past twenty-five years...
...DAILY CRIMSON: -The elevated railroad boom has set in, if we may believe what recently appeared in a Boston paper, and every man at Harvard wants to rejoice that the street cars which are now supposed to run [?] between Boston and Cambridge, are to be a thing of the past. For, who is there, that has never undergone the agony of sitting, half crushed-or, rather, owing to the unfortunate abundance of Cambridge females, of standing in the cold, crowded car, and peering frantically through the darkness in a vain attempt to discover the yard, which one never seems...
...incoming freshman classes are steadily increasing, while each year, the number of vacant rooms in the college buildings shows a corresponding decrease. In the table printed on another page, statistics will be found bearing on this question, by which it will be seen that there has been, for the past ten years, a steady decrease in the number of freshmen rooming in the yard, only broken by the erection of a new building, or the graduation of a very large class; and that whereas in 1874,60 per cent of the freshmen roomed in the yard, but 38 per cent...
...memories, perhaps, are more pleasant than those that cluster about one's college days. To us, however, this college life is a vivid reality; it has not yet slipped by and into the musty past. But something akin to the feelings of some graduate of the '60's must be those that many of us experience in looking back over the years spent at the training schools at which we fitted for college. Many a friendship formed at school still endures, now that we are in college, and bids fair to remain constant through life. No wonder, then, that...
...army, in spite of illness. He was made colonel of a Massachusetts regiment and a brigadier general in 1863. His health becoming worse he was compelled to resign in June, 1864, and it was then that he resumed his old place in the Scientific School. Here for the past twenty years his labors have been unceasing. His great knowledge did not, as with some, hinder him as a teacher, He was considered a shining light in the latter capacity, and among his pupils were men who have become celebrated His labors did not cease, even after his illness began...