Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unity and good feeling which have attended the class of '83 at Harvard at all times, even in the awarding of final honors of office, is an object of remark. - [New York Post...
...that such measures are apt to do our cause more harm than good. Now that it is perfectly plain that the faculty were helpless in the matter, and had been transcending their powers in previous years, I think that every one will see in what poor taste were the remarks which appeared in some of the college papers. I feel sure that in the case of these papers, their zeal got away with their discretion. But in the case of the notices posted in Memorial and elsewhere, reminding students of their privilege of voluntary recitations - a privilege of too great...
...court, when the testimony of a Harvard professor was quoted by opposing counsel as entitled to great weight, "Oh, we hanged one of them not long ago," referring to Dr. Webster, who murdered Dr. Parkman. This is a somewhat different version of the matter. The New York Herald's remark on your first page refers to this...
...corporation of Harvard College to decorate him with the honorary degree of doctor of laws at the annual commencement in July. All this will come hard, we know, in His Excellency Governor Butler's case, not only on general considerations, but also in remembrance of a remark he once made about hanging Harvard professors; but we trust that the Harvard men will brace up and not suffer their prejudices to conquer their politeness. Go through with the whole programme...
...best managed and effective departments of the university. Although, on account of the excellent management and spirit of accommodation which pervades those in charge it occasions but little comment, there are but few students in the university who do not realize the truth of the remark made by one of our professors when he said that he considered the library in working power equal to the entire faculty of the university. Our library, although not the largest, is undoubtedly the best in the country both as regards the excellent character of the books in it and its management. Unlike most...