Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exact position the reviewer holds, the following quotation may be taken: "How long," he laments, "how long will Harvard and Yale insist upon being the sleepy hollows of political economy, from which pupils emerge with ideas that have been obsolete for a century?" It is needless to remark that the italics are not those of Mr. Dixwell...
...public generally in regard to speak for the graduates of Harvard. Among undergraduates, however, the "fiat" has come to be almost universally approved. Just what the Clipper means by the "good" of the nine is uncertain; but if it refers to increased efficiency in playing, we would remark that it was not the purpose of the new rules to increase the skill of the nine but to rid it of professional tendencies. Of course opinions will differ as to whether this is a good thing or not, but, as far as we are able to discover the sentiment...
...Royal University of Ireland is open in all its branches to women students, and the institution and success of Girton College in England is well known. In addition to these facts, President Barnard of Columbia College says in his annual report, that no one can have failed to remark the growing interest in this subject in New York city during the past year. He thinks that Columbia College must soon admit women as students on an equal footing with men; that where, as in Michigan University, this has been done, the results have been very reassuring and gratifying...
...correspondent of the Hartford Courant writes, commenting on Josiah Quincy's "Figures of the Past:" "There are many anecdotes of Mr. Quincy's wit and readiness of retort among us. One of these which perhaps your readers have not heard relates to his remark to his father, the president of Harvard College, when he (the younger Quincy) was elected president of the Massachusetts Senate. 'You preside over boys,' said he, 'but I over...
...first visitors' book used in the library had a remarkable history. It belonged to Prof. Webster, and contains these words in ink, probably written by the owner: "Mineralogical cabinet, Harvard College, 1838 and 1839. Removed to the present room in 1842." Below in pencil, as usual, is the explanatory note: "The mineral cabinet occupied the east lower room of Harvard Hall, till it was moved to the upper room in Harvard, which had been occupied by the library." On the fly-leaf is the following interesting note by John Langdon Sibley: "After Webster's execution, search was made for this...