Word: personal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...height, each cottage accommodating, with sleeping, study and bathrooms, from twelve to fourteen students. There will be forty-four buildings, connecting with each other and forming one structure broken only by gateways. Sixteen of the cottages are already in course of erection. Each cottage will be named after the person contributing...
...Beatrice of the Vita Nuova a real person...
...wholly or in part self-supporting; the great majority of the remainder represent the middle class. True it is that the small minority of rich men's sons are trained here, but the lesson they learn is of the little avail of wealth without the recommendation of personal merit and ability. "Harvard has business only in the Back Bay and lifts her skirts away from the contamination of the North End." Had the writer himself ever approached the North End, he would not thus have exposed his ingnorance. In the houses of the poor in this district, Harvard students seek...
...will reach 1,000,000 drachmae or $193,000, besides 600,000 drachmae given by a Greek merchant of Alexandria, named Averoff, for the purpose of rebuilding the Panathenaic Stadion. The crown prince and his brothers are deeply interested in the enterprise. The king having promised to award in person the prizes of silver olive wreaths, and the Government will issue special commemorative postage stamps, a part of the proceeds of which will go to the Olympic fund. Only a part of the Station will be finished in marble in time for next spring's sports, the remainder being done...
...dramatic entertainments are given, are seriously misled concerning the nature of academic life, just because a company of undergraduates sing, play, or act during the few days of a vacation. Granted that the entertainments do show the lighter side of college life, what, in the eyes of any person, is a more natural way of spending the few days of respite from college duties? On this particular ground, the concerts allowed by the Faculty in term-time, in the vicinity of Boston, seem to be much more open to objection...