Word: riche
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American, more of a democratic college than any other in the country. The students who carried off the honors and reflected the greatest credit on the college were not the docile. pride-of-the-Sunday-school boys, but those who had some "get-up" about them. The irresponsible rich boy was not a desirable adjunct to the college-roll. Harvard was the one college in America which aimed at improving and allowing the most scope to the character of the student. The aim was to foster the desire for learning. In the old country a man might almost be said...
This project has occasioned considerable comment in many of the New York papers. The N. Y. Times says in regard to the financial aid required: "If local pride still counts for anything with the rich men of New York, substantial benefactions from some who are not specially distinguished as patrons of education may be expected," and their assistance together with the support which will undoubtedly be forthcoming from those especially interested, will make the difficulty of raising an endowment of $4,000,000 much less than was at first expected. This subject is also discussed in the N. Y. Post...
...rule, examinations are not regarded by the outside world as occasions on which a display of humor may be expected. But if exceptions prove the rule, then may examinations claim to afford a very rich fund of ludicrous incidents. One of the frequent causes of humor at examinations is of course the ignorance of candidates. A person was once asked the question at an Oxford examination, "Who was Esau?" "Esop," said he, "was a man who wrote fables, and who sold the copyright to a publisher for a bottle of potash!" Another student was asked to give some account...
...letter from Mr. LaFarge, the artist, in which he says that the whole of their class window will probably be in place in Memorial Hall before commencement day. The sketch of the Virgil is finished and the Homer is well under way. The figures are to stand out in rich color from a very pale background. Mr. LaFarge has been in bad health for the last year, and work on the window has been repeatedly delayed by sickness...
...will of the late J. J. Cooke of Providence, R. I., bequeaths $5000 each to Harvard and nine other colleges, provided that the money is used in purchasing books at the coming sale of the testator's library in New York. The library is particularly rich in various classics...