Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tennis association is to be congratulated on the success of its representatives at Hartford. although many of our best players left college with '83, we were able to retain the championship won last year by Mr. Clark and Mr. Taylor. The only complaint the association can make is in regard to the attendance or rather lack of attendance of Harvard sympathizers at the contest. While every play of the men from other colleges is applauded by a hundred or more of their classmates, the representatives of Harvard are obliged to play without a sign of approval. We hope that...
...leisure to scientific pursuits. Both Oxford and Cambridge have each more than 500 such fellowships. The fellows may, but need not act as tutors for the students. They need not even live in the university town, but may spend their stipends where they like, and in many cases may retain the fellowships for an indefinite period. With some exceptions, they only lose it in case they marry, or are elected to certain offices. They are the real successors of the old corporation of students, by and for which the university was founded and endowed. But however beautiful this plan...
...sophomores will probably retain their old seats in chapel...
...extension of the department of Political Economy exceeds the expectations of the most sanguine. We are to have seven courses instead of three, and will retain the services of Professors Dunbar and Laughlin, while Mr. Taussig will conduct one of the new courses. The first two courses are substantially the same as those given this year, though Course 2 has been somewhat enlarged. The remaining five courses deal with many of the most interesting practical applications of the science...
...curriculum of the military academy are not equalled, certainly not excelled, by any of the institutions visited by them. In several cases they found that standard scientific subjects were taught without the use of any text-books whatever, and the students learned only what little they could retain from short lectures on the subject. At other places there seemed to be a lack of a sufficient number of instructors * * *. In some cases the selection of studies and the attendance at recitations were entirely optional with the students. In all of these particulars we feel that we greatly excel our neighbors...