Word: tens
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Fifty men injure themselves from want of exercise and regularity, where ten do from hard study and where one does from over-exercise...
...recent award of the Bowdoin prizes for dissertations of excellence reminds us that the incentives to exertion in the fields of literature are confined, with us, entirely to prose. We have had here, in the past ten years, many men who have given evidence of ability to write very good poetry, but we have not yet found one who possessed both the means and the disposing frame of mind to encourage the rising lights in the poetic firmament. At Oxford the prize poem is something which is struggled for, and the successful man is justly admired. That such a prize...
...dollars for rent, about eighty dollars for water, and fifty dollars for janitor's work. Any member of the University can become a member of the H. U. B. C. by paying three dollars and signing the Constitution. The rent of lockers is two dollars a year; of rests, ten dollars...
...effect is most charming. A great many of the poorer, that is to say, the more indigent, students, are compelled to go to a great expense in order to procure dress-suits, - sometimes much greater than they can afford. The caps and gowns would not cost more than ten dollars, and would be a delightful memento, after graduation, of one of the most memorable, perhaps the most memorable, occasion of college life...
...learn from an exchange that a Baltimore City scholarship, five university scholarships, and ten fellowships, yielding $500 each, have been established at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore. These fellowships are needed in every institution which lays a claim to be called a "University," but they fail to make the university. If we could offer here the means of living to a score or two of graduates each year, we should have almost the last requirement toward making Harvard a university in the sense that Cambridge and Oxford are universities. But we must wait until those who leave money...