Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that Harvard has failed to turn out a number of "great men" proportionate to the number of dollars represented by the endowment. The views of our e. c. on the ratio of genius to college wealth are novel, to say the least. The Dartmouth says: "It is a moderate statement to affirm that in proportion to its wealth and outward facilities, Dartmouth has exerted a far mightier influence for good than Harvard. To equalize the record, Harvard ought to have produced some nine or ten Websters or Choates. But she has not done...
...ball field, and thus discourses: "The recent foot-ball upheaval at Harvard has not passed by without shaking Elihu, though himself nothing of an athlete. As an outsider then, he has such a feeling of diffidence on the subject as to prevent him from making anything like a dogmatic statement can only suggest. But it seems to him that it would have been a bright idea for the Harvard Athletic Committee-body of august power and marvelous foresight-to have delayed their decree until the inter-collegiate association had made the annual changes in the rules. Surely if there...
Below is the financial statement of the society...
...Directors of the Harvard Cooperative Society submit the following statement to its members...
Prof. C. C. Everett and Prof. E. C. Peabody, of the committee on the library, have published a statement, in the hope that some friend of the school may come to its aid, so that it can accept this gift. Some of the volumes are of general interest, and some are very curious and rare. the donation is received with gratitude, but also with embarrassment, for at present there is no accommodation for so large a collection. A condition of the gift is, that "there shall be secured, as soon as possible, for this condition and for the rest...