Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dozen instances, all told, have I seen Harvard men fail of courtesy to other passengers. Many men are coming to be indifferent to the claims of women to any other treatment than they themselves receive in the cars, but it is a very rare experience for me to see a lady, whether young or old, plain or pretty, enter a car when students are passengers, and be compelled to stand.- Cambridge Tribune...
...election of a new president to fill Dr. McCosh's place took place on Thursday, and, as was expected, Dr. Francis L. Patton, of the Seminary, was unanimously elected. It was hoped that Professor Sloane would be elected vice-president, but the board of trustees did not see fit to create a new office, and so there will be no change in the powers of the president. Thursday night the students serenaded both Dr. Cosh, whose place it will be hard to fill in the hearts of undergraduates, and Dr. Patton, both of whom made short speeches. The latter said...
Money made. See advertisement of stocks bought and sold in next column...
Money made. See advertisement of stocks bought and sold in next column...
...Eton and Rugby; but still we call them "universities." It is a new example of the old fable of the frog and the ox. The frog envied the size of the ox, and though that by puffing himself full of air he might become his equal. And so we see balloon-like universities springing up around us on all sides with no foundation but a little money and a big name...