Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...census statement of 1885 prepared under direction of Col. Carroll D. Wright gives as the population of Cambridge, 59,658; of Boston...
...very agreeable to be able to conclude with the statement that, thanks to permission courteously accorded, fac-similies of the entire document, which measures some seventeen inches by twenty, are now being executed. They will be of the full size of the original, and will leave nothing to be desired in style of production.- Letter to the London Academy...
...wish again to call the attention of our readers to Professor Norton's statement in our columns that he will be glad to see any undergraduates on Christmas eve between 8 and 10 o'clock...
...University of Michigan," says President Haven in his inaugural address, "is the oldest, largest and most flourishing of the class of institutions that may rightly be regarded as State universities." This statement was true for America in 1863, and is true to-day. In its origin, the University of Michigan is at once a national and State institution. It owes its existence primarily to the far-sighted national policy, first declared in the ordinance of 1787, whereby it was provided for the great Northwestern Territory that "schools and the means of education should forever be encouraged." This principle was reasserted...
...that the present academic staff is largely of tutorial origin. From Dr. Peabody and President Eliot, who began their official connection with the college-the first in 1832, the second in 1854-both as tutors of mathematics, down to the most recent appointments of instructors and assistant professors, this statement will in general hold tone. Harvard, founded to 'advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity' has always remained a training school for pastors and teachers. It has always recruited its professors chiefly from the tutorial ranks. Its record of academic service affords striking evidence in favor of professorial appointments upon...