Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proposition by Samuel J. Bridge of Boston to present a bronze statue of John Harvard to be erected at the head of the Delta. President Eliot, who spoke next, referred to the fund raised to increase the salary of the president and various other gifts of the past year. He also spoke in the highest terms of the long enduring generosity of the state of Massachusetts which had done so much for Harvard. Gov. Butler in reply spoke in a very complimentary way of what the state owed to Harvard. Other addresses were delivered by Dr. Geo. E. Ellis...
...class in the first year of the Law School will be far below the average of past years...
During the past summer the buildings of the Johns Hopkins University have undergone many needed repairs. President Gilman has been spending the summer in Europe, visiting and studying places of learning in England and on the continent, with his eyes open for any improvement which may be advantageously introduced in the Hopkins foundation. The excellence of the work done during the past year has 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...
Rehearsal of class song today at half-past one and at quarter-past seven. As many fellows do not come "because they can't sing" the chorister wishes to request them not to stay away on that account, for rough voices increase the volume of tone without sensibly marring its quality. Let all come and sing today and tomorrow and the class song will go off well...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I should like to urge members of the senior class who can supply any information of interest with regard to past members of '83, to kindly assist me by furnishing the same, since many of my circulars, I regret to say, have been totally disregarded by those formerly connected with the class...