Word: thwing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much for the absolutely necessary expenses. What a student will actually spend, depends entirely upon himself. The limit might be placed at between $4,000 and $5,000 at Harvard, and much less at other colleges where the temptation to spend money is less. Mr. Thwing, in an article in Scribner's Monthly, several years ago, placed the average annual expenses of a student at the various colleges as follows: Harvard, $1,000; Yale, $1,000; Amherst, $700; Princeton, $600; Brown, Bowdoin or Williams, $500. While the average Yale man may not spend as much as the average Harvard...
...following is taken from an article published some time ago in one of the religious papers and written by the Rev. Chas F. Thwing of Cambridge. His remarks on the Elective System are interesting and valuable...
...subsequent paragraph of the same article Mr. Thwing says, "The intellectual results of four years spent in Harvard College may be made, and often are made, at least as valuable as those of any four years spent in any institution, I do not hesitate to say, in the world" Mr. Thwing is a Harvard graduate, and has written much on his Alma Mater. He has never hesitated to condemn her where she needed condemning, or to praise her where she has deserved praise, and it is just this openness and freedom that gives weight to what he writes...
...Charles F. Thwing, of Cambridge, Mass., has been invited to become the successor of the Rev. Dr. Magoun as President of Iowa College, at Grinnell, Iowa...
...typical Yale graduate is ready and thorough; the Harvard, exact and full; the Amherst, patient and earnest; the Williams, well rounded and well balanced; the Dartmouth, independent; the Middlebury, careful and discrim inanity; and the Michigan, direct and clear. [C. F. Thwing...