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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. It is proposed to celebrate the first of these two great events in 1880 and the latter in 1892. The last celebration will include a permanent exposition of the Americas and will be carried out on a grander scale than any exposition which has ever been seen in this country...
...class of eighty-eight. As this is the first means given to the class of knowing the comparative work of its members, the announcement was awaited with a good deal of excitement. The list which contained all the men who have an average stand above 2.50, on a scale of four, consisted of 76 men, 19 of whom, standing above 3.15, will be admitted into the "Phi Beta Kappa." These are the following, arranged alphabetically in groups. The first group of six containing those who have an average stand above 3.30: Carter, Cornwall, Fisher, Isbell, Steiner, Stimson; Ayres, Baldwin, Behrends...
...committee will formulate their plans and report them at the next meeting of the Board of Trustees; there is little doubt but that these plans will provide for a celebration on a grand scale, and will commend themselves to all graduates and friends of the college...
...scale of scholarship has been changed from the old percentage system to a system of five grades, A, B, C, D, E. Students who fail in a course will be assigned to E. Last year this grade was fixed at two-fifths of the maximum mark. Failure on the work of the year is changed from "failure to get one half the maximum mark," to those who "stand below grade E." As the regulation previously read, a student who failed on the year's work as a whole, although he passed on all his studies, could make up the deficiency...
...soon ascertained, that, on the 8th of September, there would be a general attendance of the Alumni of Harvard University, from all parts of the United States; and preparations, chiefly under the direction of Henry F. Baker, of the class of 1815, were accordingly made on a corresponding scale...