Word: socials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when the plague swept off his father and some brothers and sisters. With some money, which his father's will had given him, he entered a student, at Emmanuel in 1627, and evidently, from the position that he took there, the butcher's money achieved for him a certain social advantage. He took his bachelor's degree in 1631 and his master's in 1634, and the signatures which he left on each of these occasions on the records of the University and that solitary volume of the library, which dying he left to the college here, are the only...
...glad to see that the Harvard Art Club shows signs of life, and apparently intends to become useful as well as ornamental. We understand that the club has set one evening a week for a social meeting, and also that an effort is being made to have occasional lectures by well known gentlemen. In such a large university as Harvard, the number of students who take a lively interest in art must be sufficient to form a flourishing club, which should not only be of real service in keeping alive an artistic spirit in college, but should also be successful...
...gymnasium lockers which we publish in another column is one of the most pleasing bits of Harvard statistics which we have been able to present to our readers for some time. It is too apt to be the case that as a university grows in numbers and therefore in social facilities, the athletic opportunities of collegiate life fall into disrepute. This has been an occasional reason offered to account for an occasional athletic defeat. The steady increase in the number of lockers in use, until now it has reached a requirement of fifty beyond the limit, is an answer...
...follows: academic, 574; graduate students, 25; Sheffield Scientific School, 246; special students, 6; total, 871. This is an increase over last year of forty-seven, thirteen in the academic department, and thirty-five in Sheff. The students in the Theological, Law, Medical, Art Schools, and in the Social Science course are not included in the above list...
...formation of a Social Science Club for the discussion of Political Science, has recently been effected at Yale by Professors Sumner, Hadley and Farnham. The membership is at present limited to graduates...