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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Amherst gives annually nineteen thousand dollars in prizes and the income of one hundred and eighty thousand dollars in scholarships...
...than the words, "Harvard's greatness is apparent in her poverty." It is poor in order to enable those who come to her doors to receive an education to get it simply by natural ability and steady application, without being dependent upon outside help, as disbursements of almost sixty thousand dollars a year in scholarships will truthfully attest. It is a notorious fact that its corps of professors and instructors is worse paid than at many of the smaller colleges, and yet they refuse the most tempting offers ot go elsewhere, sacrificing themselves for the love of their alma mater...
...thousand pities that the accidents connected with the game of foot-ball are of such a nature as to force themselves upon the attention of the spectator, and to leave behind an impression of roughness and brutality which is not borne out by facts. The casualties are usually of a sort painful for the moment, but not grave; for one serious accident, such as befell Captain Holden last week, there could probably be counted a larger proportion in base ball, in lacrosse, or even in the usual course of regular gymnastic training. But no comment is too harsh to represent...
...argument falls to the ground. As the case stands now, the only time a student can use the reference books in the library is in the morning, when his hours are generally taken up by recitatations, and in the afternoons when either laboratory work or the thousand and one things a person finds it more pleasant to do on a bright fall afternoon than pouring over a lot of musty books, prevents him from using the library as much as he ought, and as much as he would like to do. Pangs of regret are constantly shooting...
...thousand volumes have been added to the Yale University library during the last three months...