Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Seven of the surviving members of the class of 1829, Harvard, held a reunion at the Parker House Thursday evening. They were the Rev. J. F. Clarke, Dr. O. W. Holmes, E. D. Sohier, the Rev. Dr. S. F. Smith, Charles S. Storrow, the Rev. S. A. Devens and Samuel May. Dr. Holmes presided...
Hitherto the executive management of Yale have boasted that the expenses at Yale were as low as those of any college in the country. The increased expense to the student is estimated at $51, or about $1.37 a week, counting thirty-seven weeks to the collegiate year. It will not, however, affect those students who are assisted by the university, and they will still enjoy the same privileges...
...eighteen hundred and eighty-seven when the last issue of the CRIMSON was published; it is now eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Our Christmas vacation is over and we come back once more to Cambridge and prepare to train for the mid-years. This is a time for making good resolutions, and the college could not do better than resolve to inscribe a complete set of athletic victories on the blank scroll of the new year, 1888. Our record for the past two years has been anything but enviable, and it is for the men who are now here...
...various branches of academic discipline, as indicated in this original curriculum of Harvard College, appears to have been as follows: First, philosophy (logic and physics, two hours; ethics and politics, two hours; disputations, six hours); altogether ten hours a week. Greek came next, occupying, with New Testament Greek, seven hours. Rhetoric (the writing and speaking of the mother-tongue) enjoyed the third place of honor, employing six hours. Oriental languages held the fourth place, occupying five hours a week. Mathematics stood next in order, with two hours. The catechism and "common-places" were equally favored with an allowance...
...very noteworthy feature in the economic courses now given at Harvard in the prominence of the historical method. Professor Dunbar lectures upon the economic history of Europe and America since the seven years war, and also upon the history of financial legislation in the United States. Assistant-Prof. Laughlin considers the economic effect of land tenures in England, Ireland, France and Germany-a subject from the standpoint of economic history, the most important in the whole field. Assistant-Prof. Taussig lectures upon the history of economic theory and upon the history of tariff legislation in the United States. The creation...