Word: present
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WILLIAM EVERETT has been requested to take charge of the first class at Adams Academy, Quincy, until the end of the present school-term, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Dimmock...
...spirit has moved Dr. Samuel Osgood to write a letter on the question to the New York Times, and Dr. Osgood's letter has moved Mr. Sargent, the president of the Club, to answer it in the same paper. The former gentleman defends the present seal, on the ground that...
...letters. It will be many years before Harvard can have a system like the German, with its gymnasia, that send forth men fully trained for a higher education, and its professors, who mould the thought of the civilized world, it will be eternity, if Harvard continues in its present ruts...
GOING yesterday to dine with an old acquaintance, a distant relation, I was pleased to find that there were only a few friends and neighbors present, and that it was a simple family party. There is nothing so agreeable to a man of strong family feeling as an assembly of his kinsmen and kinswomen around a well-filled board. The intercourse between those who are bound together by the ties of friendship as well as of blood affords one of the rarest pleasures I am acquainted with...
...Marking System" is what the best authorities have been pleased to call the method of marking now existing at Harvard; but even to the recently initiated this word "system" must seem a keen bit of sarcasm. The great errors and injuries of the present system are so well known that any consideration of them on our part is unnecessary. We trust, however, that we shall not seem too presumptuous if we venture to suggest a remedy. It certainly requires no great ability to compare the results of established systems with the evils of the vacillating method in use here...